What is the make and model of the motherboard?  Do a Google and find the manual.  It will tell you how to clear the bios password.

Have you tried entering nothing, that is, blank password?

I have never run into a password protected bios but I believe the Ultimate Boot disk has something that will clear it.  Have you got that valuable CD?  It should be part of you C4C tool kit.

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/


On 19/12/2011 10:19 PM, Shady Hafez wrote:

Hi Pierre,

 

Here is my first question for you (many still to come)

There is a BIOS password on PhoenixBIOS 4.0 Release 6.0.C

I tried to reset the password doing the following:

 

*Removing CMOS Battery:

     -approx. 15-30 minutes and then put it back but it fails

     -removed it over night and then put it back but also it fails

 

*Using Motherboard Jumper:

    I couldn't find any jumpers; it seems to be no jumpers on this motherboard

 

* Using Backdoor Manufacturer BIOS Passwords: 

   I used the following 4 passwords but it fails,

  BIOS
  CMOS
  phoenix
  PHOENIX

 

 

PS: the machine doesn't have any operating system installed

 

I appreciate your support

Shady Hafez

 

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