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by larry23

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I have an OLD Gateway P5-75 that has an admin password on the BIOS.
In an attempt to reset the password, I removed the battery... this didn't work. Any other ideas to reset this password..?

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by eyeofhawk

If you know what type of motherboard it is, you can find out what jumpers to change on their website, and that should clear it out for you.

by cgi¤001

check out the motherboard lay out (documentation). Theres a jumper to be set to reset the BIOS password. You change the jumper, boot up, switch off, change the jumper in its original position, reboot again. You can put in a new boot-up password if you wish. Keep your documentation in a safe /secured place.

by radiic

Usually on the older style MB you will find a 3 pin jumper by the bios battery called JP1 With a jumper on 2 of the 3 pins. Put the jumper on the other 2 pins. IE. since there is 3 the middle one is always used.
Once you do that power the machine up and wait for about 10 seconds. then power down. Put the jumper back to original postion and then power on. Then go into bios. What this does is reset the bios. CAUTION... You might want to make note of all the settings under each bios area, because they will go back to the factory default.

Hope this helps
Mike

by j.alyafi

If you leave your MB without the battery for at least 72 hours or more passeword will be errased but default values will not be restored. I had to do that on a 1993 old MB.

by brookwalton101

Hello I am in desperate need of the software you mentioned in one of your posts regarding a bios password reset crack program. If you could possibly send me the file or a link to it it would mean a great deal to me and my client who is going to lose his job for forgetting the bios password he set up on his bosses HP P4 Laptop. Thank You in advance Brooke 801-870-5445

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