If you’ve just purchased a second hand laptop or computer from eBay or from a friend, you’d get VERY frustrated when you’re prompted to enter password before you can enter the BIOS when you don’t even know the password!Even if you’re a computer technician, sometimes you need to access the BIOS to do some configuration. When you ask the customer for the BIOS password, and he’s like.. err… uh… he’s not sure what’s that.
BIOS is basic input output system. The set of routines stored in read-only memory that enable a computer to start the operating system and to communicate with the various devices in the system, such as disk drives, keyboard, monitor, printer, and communications ports.Basically, if you plug in an IDE or SATA hard drive, sometimes you’ll need to access the BIOS to detect the hard drive. Well, nowadays it’s all auto detect. There’s also a whole lot of things you can configure in BIOS.
There are ways to reset the whole BIOS configurations by opening and short out pin your the motherboard, or can pull out the battery for a few minutes, and also there are some third party software that claims to reset or crack the BIOS password.For Dell computers, there’s a Dell specific BIOS Boot Erase Disc to remove Dell’s computer BIOS ADMIN password.
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