Question To Let Marinate Overnight
Written by Karl L. Gechlik | AskTheAdmin.com on June 19, 2007 – 7:05 pm -
I picked this question for the Question of the day for tomorrow. Post your answers in the comments. Can someone help Susie from California? She says she is blond and lost her password. I think she is trying to get at her husbands browsing history… Whatever she needs AskTheAdmin’s help and that is what she is going to get…
We will post our answer in the AM… In the meantime you try to help lil’ ol Susie.
Susie says
“I lost my BIOS password and I can not get into my laptop. It is an IBM Think Pad X Series running Windows XP SP1 and I have left it off with no battery for almost 6 months. The battery died but still after i plug it in it asks for the BIOS password on boot. HELP I NEED MY DATA! I am blonde and it isn’t helping me any.”
You can’t make this stuff up! You can exaggerate a little but you cant make this stuff up!
_TheObligedAdmin_
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By Michele on Jun 19, 2007 | Reply
Are you kidding me? that is horrible your Susie gives us women administators a bad name.
Cold boot enter bios and reset the password. dont let it get to windows boot screen.
By El Di Pablo on Jun 19, 2007 | Reply
I’m pretty sure she needs to either remove the cmos battery for a few seconds, or needs to use the cmos reset jumper on the motherboard to clear cmos and get rid of the password.
To michele…If there is a bios password she will not be able to get in there to change the password.
By Karl L. Gechlik on Jun 19, 2007 | Reply
Wow we are very pleased with your skill and speed el di pablo…
Any interest in a guest blogging spot?
Hit me up at info at mistercomputerhead dot com
By The Slothman on Jun 19, 2007 | Reply
IBM Thinkpads have the ability to yank out the bios battery. Cold booting to the bios wont matter, you need to disconnect the battery.
Go to http://www.ibm.com/support and find your machine type, hint: it’s on the bottom of the laptop, and try to find battery removal instructions.
Might take a bit of searching, don’t get frustrated, but the information is there.
Best of luck.
By Karl L. Gechlik on Jun 19, 2007 | Reply
Slothman that is the best advice of all. Both points.
Google is the admins best friend (right up there with the command line!)
And Dont get fustrated. Walk away count to ten smoke drink do something productive… whatever just dont let yourself get to the point you are pulling your hair out your head becuase you will do more damage then good.
Its better to take a fiver or sleep on it if its an option which we all know sometimes its not.
By Karl L. Gechlik on Jun 19, 2007 | Reply
A’ight Slothman then next questions up…
And Michele i just went back and read your comment… and whoooah
Please we arent looking to jump down peoples throats especially with the wrong answer. We have a laid back enviroment here where we all want to help out. So participate but dont jump down any elses throat. Remember there are no dumb questions, just people who dont know how to google.
By Susan on Jun 19, 2007 | Reply
I got the instruction to get the battery out and have reset the password. Google and Asktheadmin are great. thanxxx
btw the blonde comment was suposed to be a joke
By Karl L. Gechlik on Jun 19, 2007 | Reply
Case Closed Point El Di Pablo! Sorry Susie didnt thank you. But we do!