Shameless Rip-Off by pc-doctors.com
I recently found some of my manuals to remove BIOS passwords in a very familiar design on a totally foreign site:
This page is from 2006.
Continue reading "Shameless Rip-Off by pc-doctors.com"I recently found some of my manuals to remove BIOS passwords in a very familiar design on a totally foreign site:
This page is from 2006.
Continue reading "Shameless Rip-Off by pc-doctors.com"I found three different ways for bypassing the password-check on a Toshiba-notebook. I had no chance to test them, so I can't promise they will work.
Continue reading "Toshiba notebooks"Please also see this homepage for more information regarding removing passwords from IBM ThinkPads.
Continue reading "IBM ThinkPad series"This is a short one:
For skipping the password check, you have to hold down both mousebuttons after power-on until the first beep. If this doesn't work, try to press both mousebuttons repeatedly.
Thanks to Heiko Kehr. (Everything was done according to this manual.)
Continue reading "DELL Latitude CPi series"These ones are something different. DELL notebooks save their BIOS password in an EEPROM-chip so it isn't deleted when you short-circuit the BIOS battery or something like that.
Also there's no jumper/DIP-switch which disables the password. Nevertheless, there are three different ways to get such things fixed:
Continue reading "DELL Latitude series"This is a short one:
In the newer SONY VAIO Notebooks, the BIOS password is no longer stored in the volatile CMOS-area but on an EEPROM.
Jean Delvare has published his results of an analysis of various Sony Vaio EEPROM dumps on his homepage. There you can see that the BIOS password is stored encrypted in the first 7 Bytes of the EEPROM and, if no password is set, these Bytes are 00h. So if you delete the whole chip - like you can do with DELL notebooks - you should get rid of the password.
Unfortunately, this would delete all other informations like e.g. serial number, model name, etc., so that specific Sony-Applications might cause trouble or even don't accept the notebook as a SONY-device.
Continue reading "SONY VAIO"Remove the screws marked below:
Da Notebook-Hersteller die Vergesslichkeit von Passwörtern als Problem erkannt haben, ist es oft recht einfach, ein vergessenes BIOS-Passwort zu entfernen.
ACHTUNG!
Ich übernehme keine Garantie dafür, dass diese Tricks funktionieren und ich weise hiermit darauf hin, dass
man das Notebook durch Anwendung dieser Tricks unter Umständen beschädigen oder auch zerstören kann.
Since Notebook-manufacturers know of the problem of forgotten passwords, they often implement easy ways to remove BIOS passwords into their notebooks.
WARNING!
I don't take any responsibility for damages your notebook could get by using these tricks.