Please Enter Current password???

AustinByrnes

hello,

my brother gave me a neighbours p.c to look at. it boots up and asks for enter current password?? but there is no password on the system.. it looks like a bios one.

any ideas????

holcus

Yes, it's BIOS password. Try taking off CMOS battery for about 10 minutes.
That should clear the password. If this is a laptop it may be much more complicated if not impossible

Hijpo

holcus wrote: »

Yes, it's BIOS password. Try taking off CMOS battery for about 10 minutes.
That should clear the password. If this is a laptop it may be much more complicated if not impossible

I didnt think bios asked for a password unless you tried to access the bios. Some kind of drive encryption maybe?

holcus

Yes there are systems that do. But you are right it could be drive encryption too. can you boot this PC from CD/DVD with HDD taken out?

AustinByrnes

i have taken out the hdd to see if i can boot from dvd drive. and i cant. no matter what i do it just goes to enter current password screen. i have changed loads of cmos batterys before but i cant find it, i am looking for what i know as a cmos battery(see pic cmos) i cant find it) is there a chance the pics cmos 1 & 2 is the cmos, i have never seen one like that before. its soldered on to the motherboard, not like the standard one you just plug in and out of the motherboard by pins. please see attachments.

pictures

cmos: is what i consider a cmos battery

cmos 1 & 2 taken from laptop.

i have no experiance at soldering whatsoever so i dont wanna break it.

added video link:


http://youtu.be/Zq_KEfw71pk

holcus

Thats CMOS battery. I've seen them mostly on Toshiba laptops.
ask someone who has experience to do that for you or I could help you with that in Dublin.

sqwarez

yo. I come from NBR, bunch of stuck up nitwits.

Interesting board, way too many sections here


Anyway I think you can just short the CMOS and get the same result. Oooh, I have that laptop :cool:
If it doesn't work to short it, then you could also just get a pair of wire clippers and carefully clip one of the leads to break the connection. You'd lose the time and date every time you restart but it would still work perfectly, and you could always use a bit of wire and tape to reconnect it. Just be careful with that especially, whatever you do don't short anything else while its powered on.

AustinByrnes

i have also tried to do this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNESt8Pi0CQ

and it hasnt worked.