Re: Forgot BIOS Password

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Check ALL of your CMOS settings. Be sure it sees the
right amount of RAM, drive sizes, etc. etc. Check each
entry to see if it needs to be changed. There's also a
backup feature in most if you get a setting that almost
but not quite works and you want to hang on to it. And
back it up once more of course when you're done.

Pop`




Pokey wrote:
Thank you all very much for your feedback, I really
appreciate it. I took most of your advice and
located
the repair manual from HP's site. It took a little
time
but I just followed the directions step by step to
take
apart the laptop and access the CMOS battery. Had to
take the whole pc apart pretty much: hard drive,
battery,
display, cdrom and a few cover plates. I took the
battery out and to be on the safe side I let it sit
overnight to clear the memory. I booted it up and do
have a few issues, such as the one one of you
mentioned
about the time reset. Thank you, I will try that.
There
are a few small bugs like not installing certain
drivers
but I am hoping that has something to do with that.
Windows update won't let me access it because of the
clock either. I will try that first and see how it
goes.
Thank you all again.

"Poprivet`" wrote:

Pokey wrote:
Hi everyone. I am trying to help out a coworker
with
their laptop. I am unable to access the BIOS when
it
first boots up. I tried the available function
keys
but
keep getting bounced back to the screen where I
must
enter the password. I have heard that I can remove
the
CMOS battery to wipe the password off but since it
is
not
mine and a laptop I really do not want possibly to
do
any
harm to the machine. Is there any other way around
this?
How can I reset or remove the password? It does not
matter if I lose any data on the hard drive or have
to
reformat it. I tried going through HP but they
said
that
I needed to ship it to them. The laptop is a HP
Pavilion
dv1000. Thank you in advance for any of your help,
I
appreciate it.

Most laptops include in its paperwork instructions
for
changing the CMOS battery and it's simply a screw to
remove and a cover to take off. Do NOT disassemble
the
keyboard etc. to get at it. Try Googling for a user
manual for your model if you don't have the original
papers anymore.
And that is the battery you need to remove to
kill
the password. Not knowing HP, it might even be
hidden
somewhere like behind the drive bay or ???

Returning to HP for a battery change, which has to
be
done periodically, is BS and preposterous but
unfortunately not that unusual.

HTH

Pop`



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