Laptop BIOS Pwd Options

[TeK]

I know this is probably another stupid question, but I cant find any info on this particular brand of laptop, and maybe someone has experiance in it..

I have a newish Presario R3000, i was an asshat and put a bios pwd on it, and subsequently forgot it.

Now I know that some bios' have backdoor pwds, and even some of the laptops let you yank the battery for 24 hrs or so and then everythings cleared, but i know that most laptops arent like that..

does anyone know if this laptop is even salvageable without me buying another securty chip/mobo? And if it is, what should I do to erase the pwd?


thanks in advance

[James]

There should be a watch battery on the motherboard somewhere that you can remove. Not sure how long you'd have to keep it off for in order for the BIOS to lose its data, but that should do it. Might even be a jumper like on a PC mobo. But the watch battery should definitely be there...if it's not, then it'd be drawing power from the Li battery and removing that for a period of time should do the trick as well.

[zetec]

google the laptop/goto the compaq site, sometimes there's key commands that will reset the bios