Need some help
 

My wife just aquired a laptop that was my Mothers. Since she was a school teacher she got it from the school :)

All of the school's PCs have the bios password protected so I can't format the laptop. Does anyone know how to crack the bios password? I searched for it and got some crazy ideas to do with a static charge :) I want to stay away from that.

There may be a pin on the mother board to do that with some do not sure what model u have.

I don't want to be taking the laptop apart :)

Exactly what MML said. There should be a jumper somewhere on the mb that resets it to factory defaults. You shut down. Move the jumper. Start up. Shut it back down and put the jumper back in place. That's the extent of my knowledge. You'll have to Google the laptop's model and see if you can find it's online manual.

Sent it to Cleo. She loves that stuff.
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Jim - thats the best suggestion - you do have to move the jumper on the motherboard to wipe the bios password and then put it on the jumper to not require one

Jim, can't you just yank the battery?

DD

Don't get it.. why you need to enter the bios to format it?
If it was set to default I guess fdd would be set as primary boot device too?
If not try bootable cd.... otherway you will need to reset the bios by removing jumper as many posted before.

Already tried to yank the battery and nothing. I have a little dos code that I am told will do it...I will let you know.

Actually - dependent on the make of the laptop - most of them are storing the password on an EEPROM - not a jumper like a desktop

here's a link that might help out a little:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/cmospwd.txt

and the actual utility that might work
http://www.cgsecurity.org/cmospwd.html

How come no one ever told me this when I spilled beer on my laptop & couldn't get at the files because some of the keys that got "stuck" on the keyboard were in the password?

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Cause we were too busy giggling at you....

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DD

That would have only been funny if I had posted the bus :D