How to Bypass BIOS Passwords

accessing information upon the tough disk

When you spin upon the mass machine , wicked do the following steps

A.wicked enter the cmos setup menu (usually you hold to mass f2 , wicked or del , wicked or ctrl+alt+s during the boot sequence) and

B.wicked go to popular cmos setup

C.wicked sit the channel to which you hold put the tough disk as type=auto , wicked mode=auto ,

D.wicked then save & exit setup.

E.wicked now you hold access to the tough disk.

Standard bios backdoor passwords

The original , wicked fewer invasive , wicked try to bypass a bios password is to try upon of these popular manufacturer's backdoor passwords:

Award bios
Award sw , wicked award_sw , wicked award sw , wicked award pw , wicked _award , wicked awkward , wicked j64 , wicked j256 , wicked j262 , wicked j332 , wicked j322 , wicked 01322222 , wicked 589589 , wicked 589721 , wicked 595595 , wicked 598598 , wicked hlt , wicked ser , wicked sky_fox , wicked ally , wicked ally , wicked condo , wicked concat , wicked ttptha , wicked apaf , wicked hlt , wicked kdd , wicked zbaaaca , wicked zaaada , wicked zjaaadc , wicked djonet ,

Ami bios
Ami , wicked a.m.i.wicked , wicked ami sw , wicked ami_sw , wicked bios , wicked password , wicked hewitt rand , wicked oder

Other passwords you can try (for ami/award or other bioses)
Lkwpeter , wicked lkwpeter , wicked biostar , wicked biostar , wicked biosstar , wicked biosstar , wicked alfarome , wicked syxz , wicked wodj

Flashing bios via hardware

If you can't access the computer when it's upon , wicked and the popular backdoor passwords didn't work , wicked you'll hold to flash the bios via hardware.wicked please read the primary paper Money at the purpose of this piece before to try whatever of these methods.

Using the jumpers

1.wicked the canonical way to flash the bios via hardware is to plug , wicked unplug , wicked or spank a jumper upon the motherboard (for "switching a jumper" i mean that

2.wicked you find a jumper that joins the central pin and a side pin of a group of three pins ,

3.wicked you should then unplug the jumper

4.wicked and then plug it to the central pin and to the pin upon the contrary side ,

5.wicked duly provided the jumper is normally upon appointment 1-2 ,

6.wicked you hold to put it upon appointment 2-3 or vise versa.

7.wicked this jumper is not always located near to the bios , wicked but could be anywhere upon the motherboard.

8.wicked while the computer is turned off.

9.wicked wait a unite of seconds then put the jumper back to its original appointment.

10.wicked in a Good Deal Of motherboards it can happen that the computer volition automatically spin itself upon ,

11.wicked after flashing the bios.wicked in this case ,

12.wicked spin it off , wicked and put the jumper back to its original appointment ,

13.wicked then spin it upon again.wicked other motherboards require you spin the computer upon for a few seconds to flash the bios.

Removing the battery

A.wicked provided you can't find the jumper to flash the bios or provided such jumper doesn't exist ,

B.wicked you can remove the battery that keeps the bios reminiscence alive.

C.wicked it's a button-size battery somewhere upon the motherboard (on elder computers the battery could be a small , wicked quintessentially blue , wicked cylinder soldered to the motherboard ,

D.wicked but normally has a jumper upon its side to separate it ,

E.wicked otherwise you'll hold to unsolder it and then solder it back).

F.wicked take it away for 15-30 minutes or extra ,

G.wicked then put it back and the information contained into the bios reminiscence should be volatilized

H.wicked i'd propose you to remove it for with Regards To one hour to be certain ,

I.wicked because provided you put it back when the information aren't erased yet you'll hold to wait extra time , wicked as you've never removed it.

J.wicked provided at original it doesn't work , wicked try to remove the battery overnight.

K.wicked primary note: in laptop and notebooks you don't hold to remove the computer's energy batteries (which would be useless) ,

L.wicked but you should candid your computer and remove the cmos battery from the motherboard.

Short-circuiting the chip

A.wicked another way to lucid the cmos ram is to reset it by short circuiting two pins of the bios chip for a few seconds.

B.wicked you can do that with a small piece of electric wire or with a bended paper clip.

C.wicked always form certain that the computer is turned off before to try this operation.

Similar chips with different names provided they are compatible chips made by another speckle.

A.wicked provided you find the bios chip you are working upon matches with one of the following you can try to short-circuit the suitable pins.

B.wicked be circumspect , wicked because this operation can damage the chip.