Bios Password!!!

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DarkCurentEfect

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• Jul 10, 2002

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The Mother Board is ASUS P3W (its an intel 810E chipset based)

the problem is when ever the computer is turned on it asks for password on the first screen although no password was set on it ?! i removed the Battry several time but it wont work i even took out the Bios Chip n replaced it back still it asks for password?

i cant boot even coz its a system password? what to do

 

DManeKid

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• Jul 10, 2002

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i have an option on my mb that could make me put in a password everythime i boot up...ill look in my manual to see if there is a way to disable it...since it isnt the same mb it might not work but we shall give it a try!

 

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• Jul 10, 2002

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clear the cmos... and when you take the battery out leave it out for like 5 minutes.....

 

DManeKid

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yep it just said to clear the cmos! good luck!

 

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kooshball

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um, just curious.. when u say clear the cmos does that mean take the battery out?

koosh

 

DManeKid

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i dont know if that will do it or not but there should be a jumper that you just switch over and that clears the cmos for sure

 

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• Jul 11, 2002

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I had a computer that has an admin and user in that same situation with the bios I put the user pasword in and it let me clear the admin's password. Of course it was my computer.

 

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• Jul 12, 2002

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There is a CMOS ic (chip) on every motherboard which contains a readonly software called BIOS. it has it comes with the factory setting, Now if you make any changes to the bios settings they are stored in the flash memory which need POWER to hold those settings that power is drived from the battry on the Motherboard

so if you either short the jumper or remove the battry the flash memory content is lost

but in my case that is not happning, !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
might be a BIOS code gone bad or some thing

 

Tamasha_Strife

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• Jul 12, 2002

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Did you unplug your computer? If you didn't and it's simply turned off, there is standby power going through your mobo which means the battery is not doing any work! Completely unplug your comp and then take out the battery for a few minutes.