Bios - any way to circumvent this?

cerebus

HillStreetBlues said:

cerebus said:

HillStreetBlues said:

sophiejames said:

Thanks for all the replies. 

I am not after any sensitive company information. I would have liked to use this laptop in my search for a new job as my other laptop which I share with my child is not available to me during the day. 

I must admit, I am still none the wiser if it is possible to get around the Bios password request (or whatever the correct term is) at all. 

Yes, it is not my laptop and no, I won’t bother contacting the company to return it.
As per their own IT guy they don’t ask for any of the kit back & they haven’t contacted me once in over 14 months after I followed the correct process and raised a ticket to get everything returned. (In comparison the job I was in after and lost due to mass redundancy collected their kit within a matter of weeks).

I guess I can’t use it and it‘ll just sit about unused for a few more years before I dump it. 

I'm still none the wiser of the actual problem you are having.

Read the second paragraph

She wants to access the bios but it is password locked (quite normal for a corporate laptop)

Now I am guessing here but I'm assuming she wants to boot from usb to install windows

@sophiejames the other way I can think of although I've never tried it is to remove the hard drive , install windows on it using another computer and seeing if it will boot, it may work and align itself to the laptops hardware or it may not. But what have you got to lose?

That's what I mean, it's just guess work,  the actual problem why laptop cant be used (forgotten password??), the model, what's been tried etc

No no it's quite clear the bios is password locked , what we don't know is why the op wants it unlocked

Classic case of my words being twisted to suit your narrative 

cerebus

GDB2222 said:

I very much doubt that the op wants to access the bios. I assume that she just wants to log onto windows to use the machine. But, it’s a corporate machine and I assume that her account was deleted when she left the company. 

In that case I rather suspect she wouldn't be on here asking about the bios password

If she knows about bios and how to access it , I would think she has enough about her to know how to reinstall windows

You are correct that some ops don't know how to communicate properly and it ends up like pulling hens teeth 

HillStreetBlues

cerebus said:

HillStreetBlues said:

cerebus said:

HillStreetBlues said:

sophiejames said:

Thanks for all the replies. 

I am not after any sensitive company information. I would have liked to use this laptop in my search for a new job as my other laptop which I share with my child is not available to me during the day. 

I must admit, I am still none the wiser if it is possible to get around the Bios password request (or whatever the correct term is) at all. 

Yes, it is not my laptop and no, I won’t bother contacting the company to return it.
As per their own IT guy they don’t ask for any of the kit back & they haven’t contacted me once in over 14 months after I followed the correct process and raised a ticket to get everything returned. (In comparison the job I was in after and lost due to mass redundancy collected their kit within a matter of weeks).

I guess I can’t use it and it‘ll just sit about unused for a few more years before I dump it. 

I'm still none the wiser of the actual problem you are having.

Read the second paragraph

She wants to access the bios but it is password locked (quite normal for a corporate laptop)

Now I am guessing here but I'm assuming she wants to boot from usb to install windows

@sophiejames the other way I can think of although I've never tried it is to remove the hard drive , install windows on it using another computer and seeing if it will boot, it may work and align itself to the laptops hardware or it may not. But what have you got to lose?

That's what I mean, it's just guess work,  the actual problem why laptop cant be used (forgotten password??), the model, what's been tried etc

No no it's quite clear the bios is password locked , what we don't know is why the op wants it unlocked

Classic case of my words being twisted to suit your narrative 

Like I said all we can do is guess.

Olinda99

it is not at all clear what the op's problem is we are all guessing.

Is it a BIOS power on password, a BIOS user password, a BIOS supervisor password or something else?

cerebus

HillStreetBlues said:

cerebus said:

HillStreetBlues said:

cerebus said:

HillStreetBlues said:

sophiejames said:

Thanks for all the replies. 

I am not after any sensitive company information. I would have liked to use this laptop in my search for a new job as my other laptop which I share with my child is not available to me during the day. 

I must admit, I am still none the wiser if it is possible to get around the Bios password request (or whatever the correct term is) at all. 

Yes, it is not my laptop and no, I won’t bother contacting the company to return it.
As per their own IT guy they don’t ask for any of the kit back & they haven’t contacted me once in over 14 months after I followed the correct process and raised a ticket to get everything returned. (In comparison the job I was in after and lost due to mass redundancy collected their kit within a matter of weeks).

I guess I can’t use it and it‘ll just sit about unused for a few more years before I dump it. 

I'm still none the wiser of the actual problem you are having.

Read the second paragraph

She wants to access the bios but it is password locked (quite normal for a corporate laptop)

Now I am guessing here but I'm assuming she wants to boot from usb to install windows

@sophiejames the other way I can think of although I've never tried it is to remove the hard drive , install windows on it using another computer and seeing if it will boot, it may work and align itself to the laptops hardware or it may not. But what have you got to lose?

That's what I mean, it's just guess work,  the actual problem why laptop cant be used (forgotten password??), the model, what's been tried etc

No no it's quite clear the bios is password locked , what we don't know is why the op wants it unlocked

Classic case of my words being twisted to suit your narrative 

Like I said all we can do is guess.

Like I said , classic case

PHK

cerebus said:

HillStreetBlues said:

cerebus said:

HillStreetBlues said:

sophiejames said:

Thanks for all the replies. 

I am not after any sensitive company information. I would have liked to use this laptop in my search for a new job as my other laptop which I share with my child is not available to me during the day. 

I must admit, I am still none the wiser if it is possible to get around the Bios password request (or whatever the correct term is) at all. 

Yes, it is not my laptop and no, I won’t bother contacting the company to return it.
As per their own IT guy they don’t ask for any of the kit back & they haven’t contacted me once in over 14 months after I followed the correct process and raised a ticket to get everything returned. (In comparison the job I was in after and lost due to mass redundancy collected their kit within a matter of weeks).

I guess I can’t use it and it‘ll just sit about unused for a few more years before I dump it. 

I'm still none the wiser of the actual problem you are having.

Read the second paragraph

She wants to access the bios but it is password locked (quite normal for a corporate laptop)

Now I am guessing here but I'm assuming she wants to boot from usb to install windows

@sophiejames the other way I can think of although I've never tried it is to remove the hard drive , install windows on it using another computer and seeing if it will boot, it may work and align itself to the laptops hardware or it may not. But what have you got to lose?

That's what I mean, it's just guess work,  the actual problem why laptop cant be used (forgotten password??), the model, what's been tried etc

No no it's quite clear the bios is password locked , what we don't know is why the op wants it unlocked

Classic case of my words being twisted to suit your narrative 

Which Bios password? To my knowledge there are at least three different potential passwords for a corporate managed laptop. That's if it even has an old style BIOS system. 

All we need is for the OP to tell us what they are trying to do and what happens when they try it. 

cerebus

https://whatsoftware.com/how-to-reset-remove-clear-or-reveal-cmos-bios-security-password/

No idea if any of these work but worth a try 

sophiejames

HillStreetBlues said:

cerebus said:

HillStreetBlues said:

sophiejames said:

Thanks for all the replies. 

I am not after any sensitive company information. I would have liked to use this laptop in my search for a new job as my other laptop which I share with my child is not available to me during the day. 

I must admit, I am still none the wiser if it is possible to get around the Bios password request (or whatever the correct term is) at all. 

Yes, it is not my laptop and no, I won’t bother contacting the company to return it.
As per their own IT guy they don’t ask for any of the kit back & they haven’t contacted me once in over 14 months after I followed the correct process and raised a ticket to get everything returned. (In comparison the job I was in after and lost due to mass redundancy collected their kit within a matter of weeks).

I guess I can’t use it and it‘ll just sit about unused for a few more years before I dump it. 

I'm still none the wiser of the actual problem you are having.

Read the second paragraph

She wants to access the bios but it is password locked (quite normal for a corporate laptop)

Now I am guessing here but I'm assuming she wants to boot from usb to install windows

@sophiejames the other way I can think of although I've never tried it is to remove the hard drive , install windows on it using another computer and seeing if it will boot, it may work and align itself to the laptops hardware or it may not. But what have you got to lose?

That's what I mean, it's just guess work,  the actual problem why laptop cant be used (forgotten password??), the model, what's been tried etc

I know the windows password. I have given the laptop to the “local geek”, unfortunately they were struggling to get the job done & are now currently not working as they had to have emergency surgery. I messaged them the other day asking for the model no etc, unfortunately they haven’t read it yet. They told me previously they had purchased a programmer to re-program the Bios Chip. 🤷‍♀️

sophiejames

Olinda99 said:

it is not at all clear what the op's problem is we are all guessing.

Is it a BIOS power on password, a BIOS user password, a BIOS supervisor password or something else?

How would I find this out? As I said I am not tech savvy 🤷‍♀️

PHK

sophiejames said:

Olinda99 said:

it is not at all clear what the op's problem is we are all guessing.

Is it a BIOS power on password, a BIOS user password, a BIOS supervisor password or something else?

How would I find this out? As I said I am not tech savvy 🤷‍♀️

You just need to tell us what you are trying to do and what model the laptop is? Also any errors or other messages you get when you try it. 

For example, " I want to be able to remove the works software and install a new version. Of windows. "