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Help me with startup password!

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Ernest:

--- Quote from: Melodic on 21 Mar 2007, 09:59 ---If it's a password set in BIOS, you can erase it just by opening your computer up and removing, then reinserting, the battery connected to the motherboard.

Leave it to me to post a hardware solution to a software problem..

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Actually I already tried that.  And yeah, guys, I found out it's the BIOS password.  My dad's probably gonna get rid of it if I keep bugging him.

dennis:
Depending on the make and model of your motherboard, you might have to push a little CMOS reset button on the motherboard in addition to removing the battery.

And capacitors can take a long time to discharge. Leave the battery out for longer.

Just google the make and model of your board and look for CMOS reset instructions.

The Cosmic Fool:
Usually leaving it out for 5 minutes does the trick. Setting a BIOS password is the stupidest thing you could ever do on a home computer.

supersheep:
More than likely it'll be a case of changing a jumper setting rather than popping out the battery - I think that I've heard some can take 24 hours to discharge... And yes, BIOS passwords are a pain in the hole.

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