topic Re: bios locked in Operating System - Microsoft

bios locked

lawrenzo — Tue, 02 Mar 2004 12:54:43 GMT

Hello,

can anyone help, I have locked the administor bios passwd on my personal pc - I managed this by entering a password then deciding not to use a password - when i went back into the bios it requested a password - I used no password, and also the original passowrd I entered - is there anyway around this?

Thanks

Re: bios locked

Michael Schulte zur Sur — Tue, 02 Mar 2004 15:25:06 GMT

Hi,

What model do you have?
Do you have the documentation of your main board? Sometimes there is a jumper to set.

greetings,

Michael

Re: bios locked

Jon Finley — Tue, 02 Mar 2004 17:44:50 GMT

Michael's right.... usually there is a jumper on the motherboard that will reset your bios password (check in your system manual for the location).

Worst case method is to disconnect the system from power, and remove the CMOS battery for about 30 seconds.

Jon

Re: bios locked

ranthony2cfl.rr.com — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 09:26:07 GMT

Jon's answer is the right and recommended solution from classes. Pull the battery and all is forgiven.

Re: bios locked

Craig Roberts_1 — Wed, 03 Mar 2004 14:11:14 GMT

If you don't like cracking the case, you can use the KILLCMOS utility, available from http://www.utilitygeek.com/details.php?fileid=82.

HTH

Re: bios locked

lawrenzo — Fri, 05 Mar 2004 19:50:20 GMT

Thnx to everyone

Re: bios locked

Pedro Pinto_2 — Wed, 17 Mar 2004 12:29:51 GMT

I don't want to sound rude but are you teaching people how to remove BIOS passwords? Who knows if it is their units and not a stolen one! Helping is good but this kind of help i think it should not be given.

Best regards

Pedro Pinto

Re: bios locked

Christopher Svirsky — Mon, 22 Mar 2004 10:39:00 GMT

I ran the KillCMOS program in DOS and my computer restarted and just keeps beeping over and over again and again. It will not load anything, I have no access to the DOS Prompt, BIOS, and it doesn't load windows! how can I fix this?

Re: bios locked

lawrenzo — Sat, 25 Sep 2004 18:48:22 GMT

Thanks to everyone for the positive comments!!