Laptop - BIOS password..?

Riche1976

If the laptops been sat in a cupboard ever since, then send me the code over by PM and I'll get the master password for you.

Should look like 1234567-595B

If I'm too late, sorry!

marms

There will be a small cover on the bottom of the laptop held in place by 1 or 2 screws used to upgrade the ram, the cmos battery is usually there, remove the laptop battery and the cmos battery for a few seconds, then replace both batteries.

patman99

It is a 'Pheonix BIOS', so try pheonix as a password.
Just remember, all BIOS's have hard-coded backdoor passwords.

Hammyman

closed wrote: »

head towards the cmos battery route,

Don't bother. That hasn't worked on most laptops for some time.

Hammyman

marms wrote: »

There will be a small cover on the bottom of the laptop held in place by 1 or 2 screws used to upgrade the ram, the cmos battery is usually there, remove the laptop battery and the cmos battery for a few seconds, then replace both batteries.

That didn't even work on Dells half a decade ago.

closed

It's an Advent, and a 9 month old thread.

NiVZ

Hello,

Everyone has given good advice already, but just wanted to add (as I was doing this yesterday on a laptop that no-one knew the BIOS password for)

There are usually 2 kinds of BIOS passwords - one that stops you changing the settings which is only asked for when you try to access the BIOS 'setup' (press F2 for Setup etc). The second is a 'boot' password and asks as soon as you switch on the machine and stops you from booting from your hard disk or CD-ROM.

Unfortunately it sounds like you've got a 'boot' password so you can't boot into Windows, or use any other tools (Live-CD's, etc) to get the machine running.

1. If you want to get rid of the 'boot' password so you can actually use the laptop, then the your only options are using a 'backdoor' password specific to your BIOS manufacturer OR removing the CMOS battery for a few minutes with the power cable disconnected and the laptop battery pack removed (I've done this on plenty of desktops, but not tried it on a laptop although there are plenty of posts on other forums which suggest this works on laptops too)

NOTE: If it's a BIOS 'setup' (ie not a 'boot') password you can usually remove these by booting the machine into Windows or Linux-Live CD and using a password recovery program, or a program which clears the CMOS data.

2. If all you are concerened about is getting the data from the old drive then removing the hard disk and using a USB caddy is the best option and you can ignore all the BIOS stuff.

Good luck,

NiVZ.