removing the battery is a foolproof way of clearing the BIOS RAM, forcing the BIOS to reset the BIOS settings to factory settings, which should remove any password.
If it did not work you just did not wait long enough before re- inserting the battery, or maybe you even did not completely turn of the power from the PC. Unplug the power cord to make sure no backup power is present, then remove the battery and wait half an hour or so before re-insertion, so all the power can leak away from backup capacitors. And yes, the motherboard often has a pin-header with a jumper to disconnect the battery and shorten the power supply to the real time clock chip (which contains the BIOS settings). But, all motherboards are different, and it can be very hard to find the correct jumper, without an instruction booklet, or the paper which shows where all the connectors and jumpers are on the motherboard, it is often glued to the inside of the enclosure. If you can find the jumper it is the faster an more secure way to clear the BIOS RAM. On 14 nov, 19:06, Selwyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HELLO > Some motherboards have jumpers pins which are 3 pins together with a > jumper pin on 2 of them (the same as on the back of a cd dvd drive) > Take the jumper pin off the 2 pins it is currently on and move it to > the middle one and the other pin. > When you boot it should say bios password has been disabled and then > you can get access to your systems bios. > I hope this makes some sense. > Cheers > > On Oct 31, 4:40 pm, skf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I tried that but, no luck, I still can not gain access to the BIOS. > > Is there any other way to initiate the .ios file? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gOS Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/goslinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
