Help, how to clear or reset the CMOS Password for notebook? If we forgot it... ya... realy bad... set by children.

find the cmos battery switch PC off unplug the mains cable remvoe the battery. for couple of minutes. This will erase the cmos and thus the password

If you can still boot, there is an utility called killcmos, it will restore the cmos/bios defaults. Regards, Rob.

I looked this up and thought it was cool to share: Standard BIOS backdoor passwords The first, less invasive, attempt to bypass a BIOS password is to try on of these standard manufacturer's backdoor passwords: AWARD BIOS AWARD SW, AWARD_SW, Award SW, AWARD PW, _award, awkward, J64, j256, j262, j332, j322, 01322222, 589589, 589721, 595595, 598598, HLT, SER, SKY_FOX, aLLy, aLLY, Condo, CONCAT, TTPTHA, aPAf, HLT, KDD, ZBAAACA, ZAAADA, ZJAAADC, djonet, %шесть пpобелов%, %девять пpобелов% AMI BIOS AMI, A.M.I., AMI SW, AMI_SW, BIOS, PASSWORD, HEWITT RAND, Oder Other passwords you may try (for AMI/AWARD or other BIOSes) LKWPETER, lkwpeter, BIOSTAR, biostar, BIOSSTAR, biosstar, ALFAROME, Syxz, Wodj Note that the key associated to "_" in the US keyboard corresponds to "?" in some European keyboards (such as Italian and German ones), so -- for example -- you should type AWARD?SW when using those keyboards. Also remember that passwords are Case Sensitive. The last two passwords in the AWARD BIOS list are in Russian. Flashing BIOS via software If you have access to the computer when it's turned on, you could try one of those programs that remove the password from the BIOS, by invalidating its memory. However, it might happen you don't have one of those programs when you have access to the computer, so you'd better learn how to do manually what they do. You can reset the BIOS to its default values using the MS-DOS tool DEBUG (type DEBUG at the command prompt. You'd better do it in pure MS-DOS mode, not from a MS-DOS shell window in Windows). Once you are in the debug environment enter the following commands: AMI/AWARD BIOS O 70 17 O 71 17 Q PHOENIX BIOS O 70 FF O 71 17 Q GENERIC Invalidates CMOS RAM. Should work on all AT motherboards (XT motherboards don't have CMOS) O 70 2E O 71 FF Q Note that the first letter is a "O" not the number "0". The numbers which follow are two bytes in hex format.

Thanks a lot friends !