S10-3T BIOS bug?

We have purchased four Lenovo S10-3T (product code ********, greek version) and all four have the same problem:
Out of the box and on first boot, two BIOS issues appear:
ERROR 271Check Date and Time setting
WARNING 251 System CMOS checksum bad - Default configuration used
When you hit F2 to setup, a password is required - although no password has been set. A blank password doesn't work.
When you exit the setup (without entering the actual settings due to the password protection) , Windows first time setup continues with installation and creation of user account etc.
When I retry to enter BIOS Setup, the password prompt always appears.
Also have a look below at the screenshot.
Is it a BIOS bug which enables a supervisor password, or maybe a backup battery issue?
link to image
image(s) >50k converted to link(s) & serial number removed

as raggedrebel92 suggested, contact lenovo support line.

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I have had a Thinkpad S540 for a few months, and have it installed as dual boot Windows 8.1 and arch linux. After completely shutting the machine down from linux I found that the battery would be down to around 70% charge after three days unused, and decided to investigate this problem since it was not reasonable for a new battery to lose charge at anything like this rate.
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I am aware of other users with different Thinkpads who seem to have the same problem, so this may be more widespread an issue than just on the S540.
It is also not just an issue with the battery running down when fully shut down but will likely also be a problem for a machine in suspend mode since the network interface may be consuming a watt or so of power when in suspend, which will again run the battery down at an unacceptable rate.
I cannot imagine any use case where it would be necessary to have WOL enabled on a laptop that is mostly going to be used mobile - so having the default setting to AC only enabled, and having a BIOS bug enabling it when it is explicitely disabled is a serious problem.

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Hi Tommy,
Tried the acpi off switch. Didn't work. In fact I redid the install with the linux acpi=off. However no luck. I switched acpi to no in BIOS too, however, no luck with that either.
The reboot issue persists with ACPI: unable to locate RSDP showing up.
Will try the to look for the USB setting in BIOS as per your suggestion and get back to you.
Ta very much,

I'd heard about a bios bug!

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How I write it in my system specifications,I'd try to change the slot and it seems to be better with the RAM in slot 3!
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