I recently bought an old cheap computer just to play with. When I tried to access the bios screen it prompted me for a password I dont know it. I cant seem to bypass it. I am not prompted for a password when I first get into Windows 95 or anything I can use it the comp with ease. I just cant adjust the bios screen or mess with internet options. Can anyone help me. Is there a way to bypass this? I appreciate any and all help that I recieve.

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Willis, see this post/thread for a solution. 
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1032573364?s
 

Dealing with Unwanted Spyware and Parasites

Hi. I know this may sound silly but try removing the battery from your mother board. I had found out that you could bypass the password by doing this with my own PC which runs ME os. I had to reinstall the password again once the battery was reinstalled. Remove the battery and boot up, then see what happens. When done trying this shut down PC and reinstall battery.

Good Luck

On Tuesday, November 22, 2005 at 5:56 pm, Willis wrote:
>I recently bought an old cheap computer just to play with. When I tried to access
>the bios screen it prompted me for a password I dont know it. I cant seem to bypass
>it. I am not prompted for a password when I first get into Windows 95 or anything
>I can use it the comp with ease. I just cant adjust the bios screen or mess with
>internet options. Can anyone help me. Is there a way to bypass this? I appreciate
>any and all help that I recieve.

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well I was able to change the password to get into the bios but i was still wasnt able to get inot the content advisory password but i was finaly able to do that after several hours of internet research.


On Friday, November 25, 2005 at 1:50 pm, Mike wrote:
>Hi. I know this may sound silly but try removing the battery from your mother board.
>I had found out that you could bypass the password by doing this with my own PC which
>runs ME os. I had to reinstall the password again once the battery was reinstalled.
>Remove the battery and boot up, then see what happens. When done trying this shut
>down PC and reinstall battery.

>
Good Luck
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I would guess that Carol's link should've described the easiest reset of all. Maybe it was worded in geek terms, or the linked site was offline. There is no real need to pull out the battery, and when you do that, no need to restart while it's out. To fall back to the old way, on a really antique system, you just leave the battery out all night, and the stored backup power will all be drained, after which the BIOS will show its original default settings.

For about ten years, probably longer, and I just don't recall how long it's been, most MB's have been produced with a "CMOS Reset switch" built in. It consists of three pins that have a "jumper" across two of them. To reset the BIOS to defaults, just move the jumper so it covers the next pair, count to ten slowly, and then put it back where it came from. That is the easiest, fastest reset.

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Kiwi

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On Friday, November 25, 2005 at 2:05 pm, Willis wrote:

>well, I was able to change the password to get into the bios

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No need to leave battery out all night unless you want too. You can access sooner like I described earlier.

On Saturday, November 26, 2005 at 10:30 am, Kiwi wrote:
>I would guess that Carol's link should've described the easiest reset of all. Maybe
>it was worded in geek terms, or the linked site was offline. There is no real need
>to pull out the battery, and when you do that, no need to restart while it's out.
> To fall back to the old way, on a really antique system, you just leave the battery
>out all night, and the stored backup power will all be drained, after which the BIOS
>will show its original default settings.
>

>For about ten years, probably longer, and I just don't recall how long it's been,
>most MB's have been produced with a "CMOS Reset switch" built in. It consists of
>three pins that have a "jumper" across two of them. To reset the BIOS to defaults,
>just move the jumper so it covers the next pair, count to ten slowly, and then put
>it back where it came from. That is the easiest, fastest reset.
>
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>

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>Kiwi
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i have solved the problem although i cleared the cmos reset the computers password all that still did not correct the problem i was having with the content advisory i had to go into regedit and edit the files there


On Saturday, November 26, 2005 at 10:30 am, Kiwi wrote:
>I would guess that Carol's link should've described the easiest reset of all. Maybe
>it was worded in geek terms, or the linked site was offline. There is no real need
>to pull out the battery, and when you do that, no need to restart while it's out.
> To fall back to the old way, on a really antique system, you just leave the battery
>out all night, and the stored backup power will all be drained, after which the BIOS
>will show its original default settings.
>

>For about ten years, probably longer, and I just don't recall how long it's been,
>most MB's have been produced with a "CMOS Reset switch" built in. It consists of
>three pins that have a "jumper" across two of them. To reset the BIOS to defaults,
>just move the jumper so it covers the next pair, count to ten slowly, and then put
>it back where it came from. That is the easiest, fastest reset.
>
>
>
>
>

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>

>Kiwi
>

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