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I am locked off my computer; HELP!

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by littlelively

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I was gone for a few days, and my boyfriend decided he was going to change my password, in the set up. I don't know what he done, but now I can't even get to my set up! He said he cleared the password, so we would not need to enter one to start windows, my com. still askes for a password, and I have tried everything I know! please someone help! Thank you, Kathy S. Lively

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by lordinfidel

if it's win98 just press cancel... unless of course they are using the stupid user profile crap. If i'm not mistaken though, you can boot up into safe mode and it won't initiate the profile crap. But I could be wrong. I have not touched a win98 machine in over a year.

if it's 2k or nt4, there is a linux utility that can break the sam and reset the admin password..... shhhhh,

by deeda

What operating system are you running? If its 95/98 you can just press ESC to go into windows. As for 2000/XP, not sure!
Good Luck

by sbnetsec

If it is win2000 or NT, XP sometimes the administrator account is set without a password.
Try this: for username try Administrator and no password. Or admin for password.

Ray,

by littlelively

I was able to find my jumper on the mother-board and fix the password problem! I now have a new one! Ok, I am running windows xp home edition,on a HP Pavillion XT963,with a HP CD WRITER PLUS, when I fixed the last problem I got a couple more! I had to restore, HP RESTORE, back to factory settings. Now it doesn't have my cd writer installed, I tried to download them but I don't know the series , I found everything else,but that, and that is what I need! I have looked for my manuals, can't find them, please help once again. Thanks, Kathy S. Lively

by lordinfidel

Your original problem, the password, was a BIOS password, not an operating system password.

When you reset the BIOS, it also cleared out the IDE settings. Your BIOS does not have that piece of hardware as enabled.

You have to go back into your BIOS (not via the jumper) typically you press del, F1, F2 or F10 during boot-up to get into your BIOS. Once you are in there, make it easy on yourself and just set all of the drives to auto.

There are NO drivers needed for an OS to detect a cd-rom or even a cd-rw. Or even a DVD for that matter. But you BIOS must tell the OS that there is a device on the IDE bus.

by djent

This is why questions get such a variety of answers, lack of details. Who knew it was the BIOS?

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