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i have had a friend come to me with a laptop, firstly its not stolen or anything like that. some stupid person has set a startup bios password. i have taken the mother board battery off and no joy. how can i get past this?

Try taking the ram out as well it should reset. Maybe a power cycle.

rkd2398 wrote:Try taking the ram out as well it should reset. Maybe a power cycle.

ok i have taken the battery off the mobo and took the ram will try booting it up now then.

edit

took the ram out and batt still no joy

here's a link that might help
http://www.tech-faq.com/reset-bios-password.shtml" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

nice bit of info there mate, unlucky that none off them work, im thinking its gona have to go off and have the chip rewrote

Hey mate
How long did u leave the ram and battery out for??
Try leaving it out for like an hour or something

a couple days, its flashed onto a chip the only way is to either short the tracks out or get a chip change

a couple days, its flashed onto a chip the only way is to either short the tracks out or get a chip change

Try this one. Start at the second section where it says How to Bypass or Remove a BIOS Password using Software
http://www.technibble.com/how-to-bypass ... -password/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I just glanced over the article so I don't know how hard it will be, seems easy.

ive had to take it into a local computer shop to get the old bios chip lifted and a new one put on. only gona cost me £10 for labour and £10 for chip, thanks for the info guys

Ok man. I don't know of any computer shops around that would do that so I'd have to do everything myself. Hope it works. If you run into anything else let us know.

only a 10er
Thats pretty good
pc world would of charged me a million pounds lol

djshauny1 wrote:only a 10er
Thats pretty good
pc world would of charged me a million pounds lol

they want a stand alone fee of £229.99 no matter what was up with it they would fixit, i only had to take it shop as i cant solder for the life off it. £20 saves all the hassle

Thats how CompUSA was here in the states. They wanted $200 just to touch it, then the cost of labor and repair hardware.