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| 745297 | 2009-02-05 22:09:00 | I recently suffered a stroke, and apart from affecting my eyesight, I suffered quite severe memory loss. On cleaning out my home office and trying to regain some semblance of order, I decided to fire up my laptop and clean out some garbage. I am now fully retired on an early pension as I am unable to work so I desided to get rid of some of my ex-working projects. On opening my laptop, I found I could not get past my logon password as I had totally forgotten it. Trying as many as I could remember, I only use a half dozen at most, I had no joy. Sent it in to my local IT shop and they used their security software to remove the password frm Windows for me. Great!! However I had put in a BIOS password for added security and they cannot access it. This means I cannot instal Windows again as I cannot change the oder of booting from HD to CD. I emailed F1 for a private answer do to the sensitivity of the request some twoo weeks ago. To date I have had no reply, so now I am throwing open to any of the knowledgable gurus on this means. If you with to reply privately please email me on [edit: email removed to prevent harvesting by spam bots - Jen]. Cheers, Ken Avenell |
Sapperbro (6562) | ||
| 745298 | 2009-02-05 22:14:00 | What brand of laptop? Try these master passwords: manufacturer preset ones VOBIS & IBM: merlin Dell: Dell Biostar: Biostar Compaq: Compaq Jetway: spooml Packard Bell: bell9 QDI: QDI Siemens: SKY_FOX Also try this:www.uktsupport.co.uk TMC: BIGO Toshiba: Toshiba |
Blam (54) | ||
| 745299 | 2009-02-05 22:25:00 | I recently suffered a stroke, and apart from affecting my eyesight, I suffered quite severe memory loss. On cleaning out my home office and trying to regain some semblance of order, I decided to fire up my laptop and clean out some garbage. I am now fully retired on an early pension as I am unable to work so I desided to get rid of some of my ex-working projects. On opening my laptop, I found I could not get past my logon password as I had totally forgotten it. Trying as many as I could remember, I only use a half dozen at most, I had no joy. Sent it in to my local IT shop and they used their security software to remove the password from Windows for me. Great!! However I had put in a BIOS password for added security and they cannot access it. This means I cannot instal Windows again as I cannot change the order of booting from HD to CD. I emailed F1 for a private answer due to the sensitivity of the request some two weeks ago. To date I have had no reply, so now I am throwing it open to any of the knowledgable gurus on this means. If you with to reply privately please email me on [edit: email removed to prevent harvesting by spam bots - Jen]. (If this goes out twice, the second one shows all the spelling mistakes fixed - I hope.) Cheers, Ken Avenell |
Sapperbro (6562) | ||
| 745300 | 2009-02-05 22:29:00 | Acer Aspire 5600. Thanks for the promptness. Ken |
Sapperbro (6562) | ||
| 745301 | 2009-02-05 22:31:00 | are you ex miltary with a nic like that sorry to hear about your misfortune. also ask Moderator to get your email address removed from your post or if able remove yourself, spam bots havest those and youll get heaps of unwanted emails want brand is the laptop This may help you on bootup tap the F12 key this may give you boot device screen which will allow you to choose the boot device you wish to use if it does use the up down or left right arrows to select then press enter. |
beama (111) | ||
| 745302 | 2009-02-05 22:37:00 | Try this: www.cgsecurity.org |
Blam (54) | ||
| 745303 | 2009-02-05 22:38:00 | I replied in the other thread | beama (111) | ||
| 745304 | 2009-02-05 22:39:00 | This may help www.tech-faq.com Lists "backdoor" passwords for various proprietary computers/bios's. :) You could also clear the bios settings by removing the CMOS battery (the 'coin' cell on the motherboard), your IT shop should know this. |
feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 745305 | 2009-02-05 22:41:00 | Thanks, but F12 didn't work. Cheers, Ken |
Sapperbro (6562) | ||
| 745306 | 2009-02-05 23:13:00 | Might be handy if a Moderator could merge these 2 threads. 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. |
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