Question about BIOS password.

Gixxer · Post by **Gixxer** » Tue Aug 16, 2011 3:12 pm

Does a BIOS battery in the laptop work the same way a PC battery does in that if you remove it for five minutes or so it will erase a BIOS password? Thanks for any help you can provide.

morbidpete · Post by **morbidpete** » Tue Aug 16, 2011 3:36 pm

yes, unless its an ata password, that is stored on the harddrive and will follow the hard drive, common on laptops. But if it is just a standard bios password, Yes it will reset

chimdogger · Post by **chimdogger** » Tue Aug 16, 2011 4:27 pm

clearing the cmos may be required.

RaisinCain · Post by **RaisinCain** » Tue Aug 16, 2011 4:51 pm

No. You have to contact the manufacturer for a reset code/key combo or use a third party tool in most cases.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Tue Aug 16, 2011 7:34 pm

RaisinCain wrote:No. You have to contact the manufacturer for a reset code/key combo or use a third party tool in most cases.

this ^

Humboldt · Post by **Humboldt** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 12:52 am

RaisinCain wrote:No. You have to contact the manufacturer for a reset code/key combo or use a third party tool in most cases.

Good to know

Rainbow · Post by **Rainbow** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 6:16 am

Been through this a few times. If you don't have/know the password its cheaper to toss the hard drive and buy a new one. The HD manufacturers won't give you any backdoor passwords even if they have any and the third party way is a lot more expensive than just buying a new HD.

RoundEye · Post by **RoundEye** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 3:07 pm

Humboldt wrote:Good to know

Yes, I didn’t know that about laptops either. This has been an informative thread.