Bios Password Reset Tool Hp

[Gaetan Horton]

Biosconserve the computer's most essential basic input and output procedure, the self-test procedure after boot-up, and the system self-start procedure. The Bios password is set on the mainboard to protect the encrypted authentication information of Bios related settings.

Windows users who have set the Bios password are required to authenticate the password when entering the Bios setup interface or logging into the computer operating system. The basic functions of the Bios password are:

There are two kinds of passwords that can be set inside the BIOS: one is the user password and the other is the administrator password. These two passwords are set in different methods and can lock the system Bios settings and operating system respectively.

CMOS discharge, in the case of disconnecting the power supply, is that by removing the CMOS coin cell on the mainboard and cutting off the power supply of COMS, the parameters installed in the BIOS is cleared, so the password is unavailable.

Attention please, since CMOS requires just a small current to maintain the stored data, and CMOS power supply circuit generally has a capacitor whose stored power may maintain the power supply for a long time, thus this method may not work in a short time. So it is suggested that to wait at least five minutes or more after removing the battery before putting it back in.

Now many new types of mainboards use Flash chips to store bios information. Just discharging the CMOS may not reset the password. Then the Bios information can be reset by changing the jumper to clear password.

Normally, the jumper cap is attached to the pins marked 1 and 2. To use this jumper to discharge, first pull out the jumper cap from pins "1" and "2", then attach it to pins marked "2" and "3" to connect them. The user's various settings within the BIOS can be cleared and the bios information can be restored to the factory default state of the mainboard after a short period of connection.

The bios password can be cleared through DOS commands. the run window can be opened by Win+R, then enter the command "cmd" enter DEBUG (a program that comes with DOS), send a data to ports 70h and 71h, so the bios settings can be cleared, as follows:

For some of the mainboards produced before, the manufacturer has set a super password (generally included in the mainboard manual, which can unlock the bios password of the unified model mainboard), which is used by the manufacturer's maintenance personnel when returning the product.However, this method has many security issues and is only suitable for some early models of mainboards.

PC CMOS Cleaner is an application that supports retrieving, deleting the Bios password and resetting the bios status. The user needs to copy PC CMOS Cleaner existed as an ISO image to CD/DVD or USB to make a startup disk, and start it on the PC through the startup disk.

PassFab trys to support accurate method to decode BIOS password in this text, but makes no warranty as to its accuracy, completeness and reliability. You are solely responsible for the computer system infection and data loss caused by using methods in the text when decoding BIOS password. Please contact us if this forge a violation to you.

I saw your posting about the same problem that came up yesterday during discussion with a contact. I know this is now an old posting, but I am curious to know your resolution. I could not find the answer in the link provided.

My biggest problem with how this was implemented is that there was no way for an enterprise admin to override the settings. My feeling is that on a business class system any security tools should never be able to lock out the IT admins. It should leave an audit trail and require proper validation, but it should never allow an end user to intentionally or accidentally lock out IT permanently.

Considering that they are marketed as business notebooks and come with a Pro operating system I assume them to be business systems, not consumer. Overall I like the HP machines, I just found the functionality of the protect tools and the support I received lacking. I felt that HP dropped the ball on creating a product that locked the system BIOS completely with no way to override and then expected the consumer to pay several hundred for a hardware replacement.

If the only way to fix this is a motherboard replacement I would have expected it to be done as a courtesy. Having spoken to two of the three employees who held these laptops they were unaware they even set a password. They had just selected default options on the fingerprint security setup. In both cases they gave me the password they thought was set and it failed. Since they did not know they had set one there is no guarantee they gave me a good password.

Even though commercial processes are outside of my scope, the recommended resolution of sending the computer(s) for motherboard replacement does seem ridiculous. You say you have moved on and, amazingly, say you are still a happy HP customer. Your loyalty is very much appreciated. I have already notified my manager that your posting is one we need to discuss. One action item is for us to identify the HP product manager for the HP Protect Tools suite. I will respond via a private message to get more details so that I can pass on your feedback to the appropriate HP management team(s).

Every vendor makes mistakes, no matter how good they are and how high quality their service is. What is really telling is how a vendor responds when they have dropped the ball. I have enormous respect for a vendor that gets involved and tries to make things right, just like you are doing here. I really enjoy seeing vendors in the community because it gives us as IT professionals in the trenches a chance to talk very candidly with you the things you are doing well and areas we would like to see improvements.

I think the Protect Tools suite is a tool with a great deal of potential, but in the iteration I used it still had some flaws for business use. I also see these as solvable issues and if you are able to make the product manager aware of these concerns and they are addressed in a future version I would gladly try it again.

Thanks again for your constructive feedback. Good news! A key high level technical manager of the computer group under which the HP ProtectTools falls would like to talk with you first before having you communicate with one of his members on the HP ProtectTools team. His contact appears in a private message.

Hello, for quite some time my OMEN PC has a password preventing strangers from accessing its settings. It happens that I also prevented myself from accessing it because I've lost the paper where I had writen the password, and can't remember it at all.

The recovery tool creates a bootable pen drive which then can be used to install Windows 10. The recovery drive will also install the software and drivers which the PC came with. (that is the difference) (mainly the software, as Windows 10 will also install the drivers.

It will not reset the BIOS and is not going to work. To reset the BIOS you should contact the nearest HP support center or HP support directly and see if they can help. We can not help here in the community with "cracking" the BIOS.

Select Dell Client Commercial and Consumer platforms support a password reset capability that is designed to assist authorized customers who forget their passwords. Dell is aware of a password generation tools that can generate BIOS recovery passwords. The tools, which is not authorized by Dell, can be used by a physically present attacker to reset BIOS passwords and BIOS-managed (hard-drive) HDD passwords. An unauthenticated attacker with physical access to the system could potentially exploit this vulnerability to bypass security restrictions for BIOS Setup configuration, HDD access, and BIOS pre-boot authentication.

Warning: If the Master Password Lockout option is selected and the customer subsequently forgets the password, Dell will not be able to assist in the recovery of passwords. The platform will be unrecoverable, and the motherboard or hard drive will need to be replaced.

A: When setting the HDD Password, an option is presented to force a HDD wipe if the HDD Recovery Password is used. If this option was selected when the HDD password was set, the HDD is wiped upon use of the HDD Recovery password. So, no data access is permitted. If this option is not selected, the data on the HDD is retained. However, if HDD encryption is used (such as BitLocker) the data is accessible, but the information on the drive it is protected from disclosure.

A: The use of the recovery password does not compromise the integrity of the BIOS firmware. BIOS firmware is protected by NIST 800-147 signature verification protection as well as additional features such as Intel BootGuard, Intel BIOSGuard, and chipset firmware write protections. Use of the tool can allow access to the BIOS Setup Interface, which would allow changing the security settings of the platform, such as Secure Boot Enable and TPM settings.

Most newer laptops will not clear the BIOS password when you remove the battery and will not boot to CD drives unless the password is entered so disk recovery is out too.The BIOS password is stored in flash ram that does not need power to store things. Many Toshiba laptops have a jumper and the motherboard near the memory that will reset the flash BIOS password, Dell units have a program that generates a override password based on the service tag number, etc. We really need the make and model of the laptop to further guide you in the right direction.

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