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Bypassing BIOS password

by Arxleol on Sunday 03.05.2009, under hardware

Snapshot of the Phoenix AwardBIOS setup TUI
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Well, if you work with computers on daily basis you will find yourself often in trouble. And sooner or later you’ll find yourself in never-lands of Internet searching for some solution trick idea how to solve your simple problem. Now I work as sysadmin in small company and as things are usual I got computer to reinstall operating system there well to install XP but computer is well protected and so on and I don’t have BIOS password. I was

Almost pulling my hairs already and one friend that studies with me says just pull out battery and it should reset to default settings.

So in essence it is easy to enter BIOS even if its protected with password. You have to open your computer check on the motherboard and find small battery there pull this battery out and wait few minutes and it should then be at default settings. SO you will not require password anymore.
Now problem that might occur with this is that when you do this you effectively leave notice to someone else if s/he protected that computer. There is even bigger problem in case that your computer is under guarantee period in which you may not open your computer case since this will void guarantee.

Another problem that will arise if you have laptop since first of all it is hard to open laptop and when you do succeed in opening that small box. You might find out that battery is soldered onto the motherboard making this task even more difficult.

And the last problem that many of the newer motherboards do not have in fact BIOS password stored in manner that requires continues supply of power. So even if you manage to pull out battery password will stay in affect, but maybe then CMOS chip will return to its initial state and if you needed just to install windows it should work for you :D

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2 comments for this entry:
  1. terri

    How to reset your BIOS password three other ways.

    http://www.wikihow.com/Reset-Your-BIOS

  2. Arxleol

    Thanks that tutorial looks better :D

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