The easiest way to break a BIOS password is to reset the BIOS. Open the
cover and find a little watch battery on the mainboard. Remove that for
a few minutes, and you should be good to go. The piece of memory that
the BIOS uses to store its settings and passwords is called CMOS. That
stands for Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor, and it needs power
from that little watch battery to remember anything. It also doubles as
the system clock, so be ready to reset the time once you boot up.
 
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Subject: [PCBUILD] Bios password?????
From: Reggkay <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, September 14, 2010 11:58 am
To: [log in to unmask]

Hi,
My brother passed away a week ago and left us a computer with no 
passwords. It is a Toshiba computer running xp 2005. At startup it 
boots into a screen that says 'enter your HDD password' it never gets to

the windows boot screen. I'm being told that the only thing I can do is 
send it to Toshiba and they want $425 to fix it. Any ideas on what to 
do or do I have another paper weight for my desk?
Regina Long
Sapulpa, Ok

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