booting password

im trying to find some one that would be able to tell me the process of
getting on my computer that ashs for key password,in a 3x5 sqaure.
i try every thing ctrl wht booting , f1 for safe mode nothing i try will
let me on the
computer.
some one said to remove the bios battery but i cant find it. is there any
one out theere that can halp me with this problem.

Malke
Wed Nov 02 19:04:05 CST 2005

mike wrote:

> im trying to find some one that would be able to tell me the process
> of getting on my computer that ashs for key password,in a 3x5 sqaure.
> i try every thing ctrl wht booting , f1 for safe mode nothing i try
> will let me on the
> computer.
> some one said to remove the bios battery but i cant find it. is there
> any one out theere that can halp me with this problem.

If you get the request for password before the computer even boots an
operating system, this is a BIOS password. There may be jumpers on the
motherboard or you can remove the motherboard battery. I'm assuming
this is a desktop computer and not a laptop. The motherboard battery is
a small coin-shaped battery that can be removed. Let the computer sit
overnight with the battery removed. In the morning, put the battery
back in and the BIOS will have been reset to defaults (no password).

OTOH, these BIOS passwords don't magically get set by themselves. Since
you apparently didn't set it, perhaps asking the person who did is your
best course of action.

Malke
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Notan
Wed Nov 02 19:36:16 CST 2005

Malke wrote:
>
> mike wrote:
>
> > im trying to find some one that would be able to tell me the process
> > of getting on my computer that ashs for key password,in a 3x5 sqaure.
> > i try every thing ctrl wht booting , f1 for safe mode nothing i try
> > will let me on the
> > computer.
> > some one said to remove the bios battery but i cant find it. is there
> > any one out theere that can halp me with this problem.
>
> If you get the request for password before the computer even boots an
> operating system, this is a BIOS password.
>
> <snip>

Not necessarily.

It could be a *system* password, on a desktop, or a *hard drive*
password, on a laptop.

Notan

Paul
Thu Nov 03 02:56:47 CST 2005

In article <43696990.4D80142E@ddress.com>, in the
microsoft.public.security news group, Notan <notan@ddress.com> says...

> Malke wrote:
> >
> > mike wrote:
> >
> > > im trying to find some one that would be able to tell me the process
> > > of getting on my computer that ashs for key password,in a 3x5 sqaure.
> > > i try every thing ctrl wht booting , f1 for safe mode nothing i try
> > > will let me on the
> > > computer.
> > > some one said to remove the bios battery but i cant find it. is there
> > > any one out theere that can halp me with this problem.
> >
> > If you get the request for password before the computer even boots an
> > operating system, this is a BIOS password.
> >
> > <snip>
>
> Not necessarily.
>
> It could be a *system* password, on a desktop, or a *hard drive*
> password, on a laptop.

Both of which are set in the BIOS.

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