Bios - any way to circumvent this?

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sophiejames said:

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. 🤷‍♀️

What is different now from when you could legitimately log into the laptop? Did you have to enter a password before it got to the Windows login screen or is this something new?

Had you been using the laptop after you left the organisation and then this new password challenge appeared later?