bias password

[nobby4uk]

hope someone can help me out

i put a bios password on the lads pc (just messing about) whent to the pub and guess what forgot the fu**er..
and now it wont even lett me reformat,as its asking for the dam password.

cheers nob

 

[hatab]

there are differnt things u can do depending on he version/make of bios

often there is a jumper or switch that can be made that will wipe bios, normally make switch or move jumper and switch on for 10 seconds then switch off, move switch/jumper back.

or u can whip the battery out for 24 hours.

sometimes the above dont work and u do need a backdoor password, but again they are dependant on manafacturer.

post that info and may be able to help.

 

[nobby4uk]

cheers no probs it's a

emachines 2240 i did have the restore disk but again feckered
it's not nicked either so i dont mind giving details

18 months old

cheers

what is a backdoor password???

 

[hatab]

what is a backdoor password???

it is a password the engineer who wrote the bios software uses that is like a super password that he uses during development work it overides anything.

do u know the bios type ie award, ami, pheonix etc.

i cant remember what emachines use, must be loosing my memory i worked on 2 emachines last week. lol. it wont say know when u boot but b4 when it booted it would have said on the screen what company bios.

if u cant remember ill have a loook on the net but it will be later gotta go out to work again

 

[hatab]

Just quickly looked

h**p://www.e4allinc.info/dir1/motherboards/socket478/D845GVSR.htm

looks like it an ami bios if this the 1, i have attached the manual for this motherboard.

on the above web site there is a flash bios update, i would advise this as a last resort.

give these ami bios passwords a try. u may have to reboot between each try of password.

AMI
AAAMMMIII
BIOS
PASSWORD
HEWITT RAND
AMI?SW
AMI_SW
LKWPETER
A.M.I.
CONDO

make sure u type in caps.

let me know how u get on cu l8r

 

[billyk]

I think you could try taking the battery out from the motherboard and using something like a screwdriver to short the circuit. I'm not sure this works all the time but i've did it before and it worked for me.

Hope this helps

 

[hatab]

how did u get on ?

 

[webmode]

remove motherboard battery out and reset mother board setting to default, this will sort your problem.


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