It's Me Again

Vagilik · Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 6:55 am Post subject: It's Me Again

Hope someone can help with this...

i have a BIOS that im locked out of because i got a BIOS update from acer and a password magically appeared. dont have a need for the BIOS normally, but I locked myself out of my windows and i have a recovery program for it, but cant boot from CD unless i set it in the BIOS. Cant get in the BIOS though. its a laptop so its not as easy as resetting a jumper or removing and replacing the battery. Any help would be greatly appreciated; I'm stuck in a room with no doors or windows and am bouncing myself insane.

its an odd bios and the manufacturer wants to charge a hundred bux to fix it, but offer no other soultion. its an InsydeH20 BIOS

no backdoor or defaults found

Thanks in advance..ccokies for anyone that can provide the solution
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aalpha · Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 12:44 pm Post subject:

Should I assume you knew about the Admin user profile in safe mode? That would give you access to *your* user profile and thus enable you to delete, reset etc., your password.

I did a search for your BIOS "InsydeH20 BIOS" and got this -

http://club.myce.com/f7/unlocking-bios-laptop-274560/

Scroll down this page, it looks like somebody posted a step by step for a Toshiba laptop. But I'd try the safe mode Admin route first.
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Lamiaceae · Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 1:06 pm Post subject: Re: It's Me Again

aalpha · Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 1:52 pm Post subject:

It won't defeat the BIOS password but if he locked himself out of the laptop he can remove the bugger user password and not have to access the BIOS.
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Lamiaceae · Posted: Fri Nov 20, 2009 6:38 pm Post subject:

While that may solve the initial issue, I saw the 'other' problem coming back to bite me later in the future, so decided that would be a better problem to fix and throw my resources into that Smile

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Vagilik · Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 12:06 am Post subject:

lol minty i didnt change anything i said but typos last time. i figured it out. after i was done with useless research i thought of something that worked b4. i jumped the onboard circuits with a screwdriver to fix the BIOS issue. the i was good to go with the cd boot and reset the windows password.

thanks again for all the help guys
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