bios

[Sandwich]

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!\\

Paul Sandwich

[cookin chef]

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.

[Sandwich]

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

[Ferrit]

Were helping remove bios passwords now?

[Sandwich]

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.