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laptop of ebay with bios password?
hi all iv just brought a laptop from ebay but there no hard drive or psu i didn't read it though at because there was only 1 min left so i quickly bid and got it then paid for it straightaway. but then i found out that the hard drive was removed was the bios had been password now it comes with windows xp software what i found out can i just pull the little Battery out and unplug it from the mains and then auto run hardware wizard and then format the hard drive and then install windows xp am i right because iv been to a shop and they going to charge me £60 to get this done with out the hard drive and installing the hardware DELL INSPIRON 1100 2.4 Gigs 256mb well iv just added this as fast as possible becouse it will be coming down friday night
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- That was a lot to read and hard to understand since you had no punctuation at all but if I understand you correctly, you'll need to reset the CMOS. I'm not very sure about laptops but maybe you could google "how to reset CMOS" and maybe add in your laptop model. Once that gets reset, it'll reset the BIOS back to default and the password should be gone. On some PC's, booting up holding the Insert or Delete key sometimes resets it. Good luck.
- You didn't mention the make and model of your laptop, so it's a big difficult to tell. If you can get to another computer, go to the manufacturer's web site and search for "clear BIOS password" or "clear CMOS password". CMOS is another term often used for the settings stored in the PCs BIOS. Pulling the battery out will often work as well. This isn't the large battery that is easily removed, but a small one about the size of a coin that is generally buried underneath the cover somewhere. You will need to pull the battery out and wait for a good bit, as sometimes the manufacturers put in a slow-discharge capacitor that keeps the CMOS memory intact while a battery that has died is replaced.
