An alternate to leaving the battery out overnight.

Providing you can get to a DOS prompt....try holding down the shift key + F5,different combinations for different computers.
Then type the following.

at the command prompt type DEBUG then hit enter
You'll see a dash(-) at the debug prompt.
Now type o 70 2e then hit enter
Then type o 71 ff and hit enter
Then type Q and hit enter.

Reboot..... the bios password should now be gone.

NOTE: This works only with MS-DOS 6.00, ^.22 and MS-DOS 7.xx (aka Windows 9x)

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by Cariad edited by dbmaven
last modified: 2003-09-05 11:30:33