Hi Nairalanders,
I dont know if hardware engrs are in this house!
My laptop's giving me serious probs and i want to format, the problem is it prompts me to enter BIOS setup everytime i startup, the password's been forgotten cos it used to be my official laptop b4 it became personal.
Pls is there a way i can enter?
I suspect its an hardware solution that will be needed,does anyone know what i can do to it?
Pls help me out.
Its an acer travelmate 40621CI
help me out someone!
the writer doesnt work again too!!!

Operating system?

Win XP please.

hasnt this happened to someone before?
someone pls help out, i need to format this system!!!

One way to enter the BIOS setup is to remove the battery on the motherboard for Remove the battery for at least 5 minutes an insert it again in it's socket that would wipe the stored information which tells the PC how to boot-up the system.

The second way this can be sorted out is to remove password using Clear CMOS jumper on your motherborad
Please refer to your manual to locate this jumper.
Clearing CMOS will erase all passwords set but all your user defined settings like hard disk type, RAM timings etc, too. You'll have to set these values again after clearing CMOS.

If you can boot-up the PC you can download this software below install it and follow the instructions below
CMOSpwd [http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/CmosPwd#CmosPwd_Download][/http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/CmosPwd#CmosPwd_Download]

Hope this helps you

Thanks, i hope it works.
i'll try it and let you know

It didnt work man!
I need BIG HELP

You say it is a laptop. There isnt much you can do without opening it up. The only way to recover the lost bios password is to remove the battery like youngblud said. If you can see a jumper on the motherboard then you should be able to short it but i doubt if there is an such jumper on the laptop.

i opened it my guy, i removed the battery but it aint working still

CPU = Intel (R) Pentium (R) M Processor 1.73GHz
503M system RAM passed
2048 cashe SRAM Passed
system BIOS shadowed
Video BIOS shadowed
Fixed Disk 0: WDC bla-bla
Atapi CD ROM bla-bla
Mouse Initialized
ERROR
Resource conflict-PCI Network controller on motherboard
BUS:06, Device:08, Function:00
Press <F1> to resume,<F2> to setup

so you cant change anything when you enter bios setup? if you can, disable the network card

thanks man, i have entered BIOS already, it still keeps giving me the error above.
what do i do from there?

Delta007:

Operating system?

why this question?


Cooldude. . . are u saying tht u can get into the bios yet u cant change any parameters?
if u can change parameters, change first boot device to cd.

if u just cant get the lappy to boot from cd here's something i used to do few years back (in a situation where there's not cdrom drive). same applies to ur case.

remove the hdd, mount it on another system (wit working cdrom) as master (remove any other HDDs of tht system before mountin this as master). now install windows 98 using a win98 bootable disc. before installation run FDISK from dos and partition (at least two partitions), then format partitions.

now u've gotten windows 98 installed on ur hdd (but on another system). copy the entire winXP cd contents into the hdd. unmount it and mount it back on ur laptop.
now win 98 will run on ur lappy, once u've gotten into win98 environment, goto where u saved the winXP files, run setup, u'll be given two options, either to upgrade or do a new install. choose any of them according to ur preferece, if u wonno dual boot, choose new installation, else choose upgrade.

well tht's just about how much i can break it down in text, the whole thing is in ma head, dunno how to break it "downer than this" for u. hope u find a solution brov.

@COOLDUDE

I CAN HELP.

BUT I WANT YOU TO EXPLAIN IT MORE TO ME.

I WANT TO KNOW THE MAIN PROBLEM,

IS THE PROBLEM HOW TO REMOVE PASSWORD? OR
IS THE PROBLEM HOW TO STOP THE QUESTION, PRESS F2 TO ENTER SETUP. OR
IS THE PROBLEM HOW TO BOOT THE SYSTEM

PLEASE ANSWER THE QUESTION, I PROMISE YOU TO GIVE YOU SOLUTION WETIN A MINUITE.

Thanks guys, I am sorry, i'm just seeing this cos its been a while i came on.
I have actually formatted the system long ago.
But the problem is that it keeps prompting me to enter set up which when i enter,
i can do nothing!
there's no place for me to change anything on network.
so the error keeps repeating itself everytime i start up.

My prob. now is how do i stop the system from reporting the error i put in the post before this?

hi my name is olawale pls call me on this number if u r in lagos am a technician

call you for what boy?

Be careful!!!
You better give it to a competent technician before you complicate issues, abi u no want make engr chop
When your bios is passworded; just know that you locked the bios(eprom chipon the board) and you might have to flash it,

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