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| 745307 | 2009-02-05 23:19:00 | By the way, not advisable to put your email address on the open forum post as it can be harvested from there by spambots, better to use the private message or internal email tools. pressf1.co.nz s |
feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 745308 | 2009-02-06 00:50:00 | Thanks for the many comments about the email address. I already appear to be on many lists but Mailwasher sorts any spam out. Tried getting through to the Moderator but is not clear on the General Screen. Eyesight problem isn't helping. | Sapperbro (6562) | ||
| 745309 | 2009-02-06 01:14:00 | Tried getting through to the Moderator but is not clear on the General Screen. Eyesight problem isn't helping.I have removed your email address from the posts and merged the duplicate threads. To contact a Moderator, just send us a private message. Otherwise, you can report your own post which sends out an email to all Moderators asking for us to remove your email address from the post. :) |
Jen (38) | ||
| 745310 | 2009-02-06 02:30:00 | Thanks Jen, Much appreciated. Get myself very confused these days. In answer to all you kind people, I was playing around with the various programmes from links that were sent and getting nowhere. Couldn't even find the BIOS battery in the laptop. Anyway had a brainstorm and the password popped into the old pumpkin and it worked!! Everything removed and back to normal now. Cheers, Ken |
Sapperbro (6562) | ||
| 745311 | 2009-02-06 02:34:00 | Tryed to get into a Compaq some time ago with the same problem. None of the many available passwords worked. Pulled the CMOS battery & left it out for about a week. Still didn't fix the problem. Laptops are such devils to work on, so I'd try all those 'backdoor' passwords you can find first, but if all else fails, you could also try this to clear the bios. 1. Pull out the power. 2. Pull out the main batteries 3. Pull out the CMOS battery on the motherboard 4. Use something metallic to create a short between the exposed terminals of the CMOS battery. 5. Wait a bit, and then try restoring power. Doesn't matter if the CMOS battery is left out. You may find that the hard disc parameters get lost from CMOS as well, which is another pain. I dread opening up a laptop, as the chances of wrecking something seem to be about 20 times higher than when doing the sames tasks on a regular desktop. Be particularly carefull if you have to handle the hard disc drive. Handle it by the edges only, and do not grip it with your fingers over the broad flat top/bottom surfaces, as just a squeeze can wreck them. Good luck |
Paul.Cov (425) | ||
| 745312 | 2009-02-06 03:06:00 | Glad you got it sorted Ken | Driftwood (5551) | ||
| 745313 | 2009-02-06 07:21:00 | I dont know if this had been posted because im too lazy to look. but if u want to bypass/delete a bio password remove the battery that keeps the time. it will be on ur mother board. leave for about 10-30seconds; replace and start up. no password :) -p.s got this from reading my asus Mobo manual |
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