Password for computer

You can clear BIOS(e.g. password) by shorting pins. To find them, you must look on the board for something as JBAT, Clear Data/Keep Data, CMOS RAM, etc. When you located them - short them, while the system is off.
Removing a battery may help in resetting same data but it's usually for date and time only.
Check:
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000235.htm
http://www.wimsbios.com/
http://www.computerhope.com/network/bios.htm

Good luck

You need to go to the main boards web site to see how to do this. I have seen boards where you short the jumpers with the system off and where you short it and reboot with the jumpers on. Also there are web sites that tell you the back door for biospasswords.

Here are some back door passwords that might work. I found then on the web..Good Luck Joe
At boot-up note the BIOS provider (Award, AMI, Phoenix, IBM, etc.)

For Award BIOS? try these backdoor passwords:

AWARD_SW
j262
HLT
SER
SKY_FOX
BIOSTAR
ALFAROME
Lkwpeter
j256
AWARD?SW
LKWPETER
syxz
ALLy
589589
589721
awkward
CONCAT
d8on
CONDO
j64
szyx

For AMI BIOS? try these backdoor passwords:

AMI
BIOS
PASSWORD
HEWITT RAND
AMI?SW
AMI_SW
LKWPETER
A.M.I.
CONDO

ForPHOENIX BIOS? try this backdoor password:

phoenix

Actaully,, because you have an old pentium, i'd suggest that you record all the settings you can get to in the bios, power off the computer, then go inside your computer and remove the battery. Let it sit outside the computer for an hour or so, then place it back in. This does work in my Pentium 150 MHz.

Looking at the motherboard, pull the battery out of its socket. Replace the battery back into its socket and should set the B.I.O.S. settings back to default, therefore letting you into the B.I.O.S. without requiring a password.

Dear Tina, I believe the easiest way of doing this is to remove the bios jumper from the mother board, boot the pc into the bios and reset the password. Refer to your manual for the location of the appropriate jumper. It may be 21 or 22. I did thisrecently and it worked fine. Good luck and regards,

Brian

Although the battery removal or CMOS jumper pin removal should work, there are some motherboards which do not have this facility.
In this case, get hold of the utility BIOS320.EXE
Save this on a bootable floppy disk, and boot from it. Run BIOS320,and then choose Blasters, Method1
Reboot.
This should clear about 90% of all bios problems (very useful on laptops as well!)
Hope this helps
Roger

Hi! Tina,

There are few methods for clearing the BIOS password.

1. The best way is to removing the battery for some time, insert it again and switch on the system.

2. Some motherboards offer a feature for clearing the contents of CMOS. Press either of the keys 'F' "pageup" "Pagedown" during power on.(It might work)

3.The default passwords given by the mother board manufacturers. Try to check these at http://www.wimsbios.com

4. The last thing you do is the jumper settings. Do not venture to do this unless u do not the jumper settings.

Good luck.
Ramana

try taking the battery out and leave the battery out for at least a day. Now put the battery back in and the bios should reset. There are also utilities that will reveal the current bios password. They only require dos. Go to http://www.simtel.net to see them.

Remove all the power core cables out of your computer, remove the cables that goes from the monitor to your video card on the computer, open your computer up, remove the battery for 2 minutes, connect the video cable to the computer back, put the battery on it, connect the power cable back to the computer.
Turn it on and it will tell you that some settings are not ok, just go to the BIOS, setup date, time and hard disks and all the other things you wanted to change.
Good luck,
@lberto

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