How to know the BIOS Password

[saipradeepg]

Dear Friends,
I would like to know the BIOS password as i need to enter and change some settings but i dont want to reset the Jumper settings/CMOS Battery as the cabinet is locked!The PC is HP compaq series and the OS i'm using is WinXp
Thanks,
Pradeep.

[Kniwor]

IMAO....you cant "crack" the BIOS password, sorry pal, you will need to open the cabby.

[amitava82]

or call hp guys, they will do for you if its under warrenty n u r afraid of voiding warrenty..

[apoorv.sharma]

hehe...bad for you mister but there is NO other way by which u can crack the password, apart from openin up the cabinet itself ! :)
thts the ENTIRE idea of a BIOS password in the first place ! :P

[Jaas]

hi friends can u help me
sometimes my pc restarts automatically even i'm working on it
wat's the fault???

[Vishal Gupta]

Once I posted a method to reset BIOS Settings to default using registers:

http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showpost.php?p=188679&postcount=8

May be it'll also work for u.

Also following site can help u:

http://www.elfqrin.com/docs/biospw.html

[saipradeepg]

I checked that out...Its not resetting the password...Its invain

[Ron]

hey buddy i am not sure but i think bios reseter will work...............

[eagle_y2j]

Call HP guys they know master password

[Vishal Gupta]

@saipradeepg
The post which I mentioned, contains the code to reset BIOS to default settings and it'll also reset the password.

[Kiran_tech_mania]

Opening the cabinet and removing the BIOS battery is the best option to reset the password. In your case, if you don't wanna do that, then u may try back door BIOS passwords. All standard Players use that. Compaq was using "Compaq" as backdoor BIOS password. I am not sure about HP Compaq. Give a try. But give it only once, else you may end up blocking the BIOS.

[saikibryan]

isn't there ne keyhole surgery for that?

[it_waaznt_me]

Try CmosPwd (http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/CmosPwd).