Posted on 10/20/2003 8:48:04 AM PDT by Doc Savage
Can anyone tell me how to delete or bypass a forgotten bios password which blocks my CPU from booting.
Old question Thread I was hunting for... Bookmarked... and as always, great advice... I wish JimRob would let us open a Teck vaninty section for just such questions as these.
tech ping....
It's a BIOS password, all right. A BIOS password prevents you from even getting to Windows.
I had to put a BIOS password block on an employee's PC the day we were firing her. She couldn't get the PC past the DOS bootup screen. (This was the same woman who, confronted with the results of the keystroke monitor we installed on her PC, denied that was her sitting there. In an office of 18 people.)
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
This small program (88kb) called " ctbios15 " It is suppost to show the bio passwords... Anyone ever tried it.. What do I do to disable the bio password process altogether?
So i was reading this blog about bios password problems. So I need to either take bios battery out for a hour, pull a jumper, or download some software thatshows bios password?
A reply would be awesome guys. Thank you
After I closed my office of 7 years and moved the billing computer to my home, I learned that the factory ID and password “password” and “root” were still in place, thanks to the people I’d bought the hardware and software from.
Have you tried those?
I’m asumming this will work as it did on Gateway Essential 500.
MESSED UP HITTING BUG BEFORE THROUGH and had to start over. TAKE jumper off then turn on let cycle 2 times throughbeeb code then while computer is still on put jumper back on in set up position ( pins 2 & 3 ) or the middlel pin and the one farthset away from pin marked by an arrow. Once pins are back on turn off then back on. Pop up comes on asking to clear all codes did so and then went into bios and reset. Pop up came on and said to turn off and put jumber on in normal position after turning off. did so and it worked no more pasword or system disabled messeages. This was on a Gate way Essentiual 500 model serial number 0017494275
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