You'll find all the help you need for your dilemma here,
http://www.nospin.com/pc/ts_cmos.html

HTH,

Jose



Richard Geoffrey wrote:

> Hi All
>
> I have a Packard Bell, Club 40b Computer, which I bought
> new about 2 years ago.
> Yesterday I bought a 20gb WD205BA hard drive to
> replace the existing 3.3gb.
>
> Switching on the computer, the PB screen comes up, I
> then press F2 for setup, the bios screen comes up
> asking for a password.  When I bought the computer
> from a computer super store the boxes were not
> opened and were sealed with PB tape I guess the bios
> password was put on by the manufacture.
>
> Can anyone Please help with the following,
>
> 1,  Does anyone now what the password might be ?
>
> 2. Is they a way of bypassing the password to allow
>      access to the bios ?
>
> 3, When I have access to the bios, is it better to use
>     Lifeguard EZ-install which came with the new drive
>     to transfer the info from the 3.3gb to the 20gb.
>     Or is it better to use the disks which came with the
>      computer ?
>      (2, PB cdroms, marked, 1, master  2, master.
>       1, PB floppy bootdisk)
>
>       All text files are backed up to floppy, I would
>       like to finish up with 1, hd with a 20gb partition.
>
> Any help appreciated,
>
> TIA,
>
> Richard.

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