I think you are going about this wrong. The passwords and settings are not stored in the BIOS, they would be stored in the CMOS ram.
That is why clearing CMOS resets all the parms back to defaults. Now you might be able to re-write the BIOS to accomplish this but its gonna be non-trivial. Googling "set bios password remotely" gives links to some scripts that look promising. I would guess the boot options can be scripted as well. We've been looking at this using Altiris too. I'd guess other client management systems could do this too. From: Okan Bostan [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 8:39 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Custom BIOS Hi List, We have purchased ~750 PC (Hp DC7900) for student labs. I want to set a password for BIOS for all the new computers, and make some restirictions, like disabling cdrom boot. Is there a way to automate this process? I don't want to set all passwords manually. I have seached a little, I think about taking the modified bios image and applying it as bios update to computers via Group policy. In addition to this, I have tried uniflash, awdflash or HPQFLASH and FLASHBIN to backup the current password protected BIOS as .bin file but I cannot succeed it, Any suggestions? Thanks. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
