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HP Elitebook BIOS

Chess

Chess

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I was given a laptop by my buddy,... there is a bios password on there Bios Administrator to be exact. he has no clue what the p/w is.

I did some digging and researching and it seems like you have to replace the mobo.
The HP Smartkey isnt enables, and I am unable to really do anything.

Curious if anyone has "cracked" the code on this...
 
Search the internet, I'm not finding it right now. I had a Fujitsu laptop last year we needed to clear the password, found a site that listed out ways on many different laptop brands that provide you a hash value derived from the password, then there is software that runs through combinations and figures out what the password is.

On the Toshiba laptop there was a series of 3 bios password entries to enter, the laptop then shows a value on the screen, plug that value into a script, and I had the bios password.

But, not getting the right google keywords to find it tonight.

edit: here it is:
http://dogber1.blogspot.com/2009/05/table-of-reverse-engineered-bios.html
 
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It is preventing me from booting.... its a pain in the ass...

Looks like the usb is disabled as well... great times...
 
Chess said:
It is preventing me from booting.... its a pain in the ass...

Looks like the usb is disabled as well... great times...
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Ahh, then yes, pain in the ass, although you still could try to remove the ac,battery and coin battery from the laptop and see if it does anything, cant get any worse that it is now.

Usually the coin battery is assessable from underneath, most of the time in the hard drive bay.
 
Dahak said:
Ahh, then yes, pain in the ass, although you still could try to remove the ac,battery and coin battery from the laptop and see if it does anything, cant get any worse that it is now.

Usually the coin battery is assessable from underneath, most of the time in the hard drive bay.
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Yeah what a pain in the dick... i was going to try that as well... i took out the battery, havent done the coin battery even though I should... usually it wont reset it on that main principal when it needs admin bios :\
 
If it is still under warranty, call it in and tell them the password it was set for is no longer working. See what they can do for you.
 
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