Anyone knows how to _recover_ a laptop's BIOS password?

[anon]

That's one of the ones I tried. It didn't get past the "recognizing hardware" screen during the boot process.

[hecongyan]

Note I stressed "recover". I don't want to kill or clear the password, but recover it from wherever it's stored. I tried a couple of boot CDs that had that option, but they didn't work. Searching a bit I find that laptops store that information in their EEPROM, at that point I just thought I'd make a thread here and see if anyone knew how to proceed.

I know some methods to reset bios password.
1. The best and easiest method: Close OS and shut down the electricity power of computer. Open your computer box, take out the cmos battery from the mainboard. Then the bios password will be reset to blank. Put it back after a few minutes.
2. Follow some hard tutorials, it is difficult to do. It is better that you are a expert. For example this tutorial: Bypass BIOS Password or Crack CMOS Password?
3. Use the bios password recovery tool , but that is not free!

So I would suggest you the 1st method. Hope it helps.

[ParamouR]

1. The best and easiest method: Close OS and shut down the electricity power of computer. Open your computer box, take out the cmos battery from the mainboard. Then the bios password will be reset to blank. Put it back after a few minutes.

The above method works on most Systems.
Do note not just the Bios Password but also the settings of your BIOS would be restored back to original/factory settings/reset. I have tried it myself, it works. If it doesn't you might have to call up the service center to get it fixed

[caballero]

1. The best and easiest method: Close OS and shut down the electricity power of computer. Open your computer box, take out the cmos battery from the mainboard. Then the bios password will be reset to blank. Put it back after a few minutes

The title says laptop, and if you read the first page, opening it is not an option

Join Date 15.12.10

Very active indeed

[anon]

Stuff

I've tried all of those and either they aren't viable or they don't work.

I've removed the ad link from your signature, also, we don't like that.

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cmospwd managed to kill the password without any consequences! Yeah, I took the risk.

The BIOS has very little settings, just a few device tweaks, boot order, passwords and nothing else.

Thank you all!