Laptop BIOS help

Ambushed

Ambushed

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Hi,

my cousin has came to me today with a problem I can not fix.

He has recently locked himself out of the bios and not able to remember the password he set, how would I go by resetting this?
 
If all that shows is just upgrading the memory, it most likely won't show where the cmos battery is. Usually you have to almost take the whole laptop apart to get to it. You may be able to call HP and see if there is a backdoor bios password.
 
i had same problem on one i worked with. took it apart and not on the top.
turned upside down and i think i popped out the battery and there it was.
 
Sometimes the batteries will not use the standard flat plug in the motherboard and will be covered in heatshrink and plug into a 3-pin connector on the motherboard. I know for a fact that Acer does this in their laptops and mini-desktops.
 
Thanks for the reponses guys really,

I am at the point where I have got the keyboard side completely stripped.


tremmor said:
i had same problem on one i worked with. took it apart and not on the top.
turned upside down and i think i popped out the battery and there it was.
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Yeah I am at this point now, so its not on the keyboard side its on the bottom? Did you work on a 4520s ?

Cheers
 
It was not mine. Sorry, don't remember. I didn't see a model.
Post the model and i will look. May find and maybe not.
 
i did not find it. as i mentioned i took out the lithium battery and the button battery was there. Think it was a gateway laptop. Called RTC?

i did not find yours. I did not find mine. it was take apart and another job.
 
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Universal password may not exist now, perhaps is that people have not found it, maybe I do not know. If you block your access to the system bios password, you can try to change the hardware. Because if the system starts to discover new hardware configuration with the original hardware configuration is not the same, perhaps you could charge directly into the CMOS without a password reset. Change the hardware configuration is simple: for example, pulling a memory or install a different type of CPU (of course the motherboard supports), the replacement of a hard drive. I want to change the hardware removed the bios battery is not as simple.
 
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