bios

:wave:Ok, It has been ages since I signed in! It would appear that many things have changed. In any case my good friend Tommy has given me a laptop-- an HP 6830s with 4gb of ram. I recently reinstalled everything from scratch including vista business 64 bit. I updated the bios also to the latest from HP. However this machine's bios is password protected which I thought would disapear with the update flash, but it did not disappear-- maybe cuz I updated through windows with HP's update utility. It is not critical to get into the bios, but it is a bother. I guess I am OCD enough to want to be able to see what evertything is set to. Is there an easy way to take the password protection off w/o taking this machine apart and finding the cmos battery?
That's the questiion! Any advice would be appreciated!\\:thumbs:

Paul Sandwich

Not long ago, I ran into a similar bios password issue like yours with a 2005 Compaq P4 Laptop. I successfully removed it with Bios Cracker (BIOS password remover) using Hiren's freeware Boot CD.
Thankfully the bios was set to boot cd first.

This might work for you also.

http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd

Or...If your friend Tommy was the original owner...ask him for the password.

Thanks! Unfortunately Tommy didn't use this machine. He had to fire the employee who did so trying to get it from him is not possible.
I will try the software options that you presented.

Paul:)

Were helping remove bios passwords now?

:thumbs: I fixed it with software from HP. Since I reinstalled everything I was the administrator so all the security software allowed me to delete the former user and I got into the bios that way. It definitly surprised me that I could do that. I really thought I would leave it alone until it might become nessessary to take the machine apart. :thumbs2: