Comment on Apparantly, you can no longer reset the "User" BIOS Password with the "Admin" BIOS Password? Why??? I literally am the Admin lol.

bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That hasn’t worked on any (good) machine for the last 20 years. Especially now in the EFI age any important settings like that are stored in nvram.

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• cantthinkofausername@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Resetting settings doesn’t seem to affect passwords, I tried it.

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  • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Maybe you can check the manual if the laptop has a CMOS battery. If it does, you’ll have to take apart the laptop to remove the battery for a few minutes, which will reset all the settings.

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    • cantthinkofausername@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I searched the entire PDF for “CMOS” and cant find anything. I read a few reddit threads saying modern laptops don’t store CMOS settings in volitile memory anymore, so its harder to bypass.

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      • AlphaOmega@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Motherboards used to have a jumper pin to erase bios passwords and reset bios to default. Doubtful that a modern laptop has these, but worth a look.

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