Anyone know how to clear the CMOS on an HP Omnibook 4150B?

[Audiofight]

Alright

I have the unfortunate problem of having a bios password on my HP Omnibook 4150B.

The worst part is the fact that 12GB hdd in it was partitioned off into a 2 gb (C and a 10 gb (D sections. The 2 gb is full and I can't update DirectX, which is required to play some games I want to play on it.

I am really kinda leary about tearing it apart, b/c it is under warranty until Aug. 2003 and I don't want to void that. Nor do I want to send it to HP and have to wait 2-3 weeks for them to finally clear it for me.

Any ideas on how they clear the CMOS "software" wise?

 

[Audiofight]

Another bump

 

[techfuzz]

Why not backup what you have and reformated the drive and create a single partition?

techfuzz

 

[Audiofight]

The laptop is set to boot from hard disk only and I can't format and re-install anything now

I am trying to clear the CMOS so I can flash the bios on it as well. Unfortunately, it requires a floppy to flash the bios because the bios doesn't have the nice "ALT + F2" feature that most newer motherboards are coming out with, at least my new Asus board has it.

 

[techfuzz]

Software BIOS password receovery - I found this, don't know if this will help or not. I'm pretty sure the BIOS on your OmniBook is a Phoenix BIOS which is supported by this tool.

The only other thing I can think of is to remove the battery and then take the laptop apart and remove the CMOS battery and let it sit for a couple of hours and hope that the CMOS clears.

Although it sounds like you're going to have to send it back to HP to get it cleared unfortunately.

techfuzz

 

[Audiofight]

Thanks for the help. But, that doesn't work on a laptop bios.

It just cleared my date/time settings and then left the password on there.