The Hard drive has XP on it but I think some idiot tried to install ME and
when I boot it just gives me the black screen and asks for a password and
asks me to press enter to leave password security enable or press ctl enter
to disable password security and no matter what button I press I get the
enter password. I tried to put my XP cd in and no luck. I tried to use a
boot disc and no luck. Is there any way I can boot up with and bypass the
password?

The first thing is to go into the BIOS and make sure that the cd drive is
ahead of the hard drive in the boot order so you can at least boot into the
Windows cd.

"Marty" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:CC6D6D7A-CD98-42F8-98C6-(E-Mail Removed)...
> The Hard drive has XP on it but I think some idiot tried to install ME and
> when I boot it just gives me the black screen and asks for a password and
> asks me to press enter to leave password security enable or press ctl
> enter
> to disable password security and no matter what button I press I get the
> enter password. I tried to put my XP cd in and no luck. I tried to use a
> boot disc and no luck. Is there any way I can boot up with and bypass the
> password?

I cant get into the bios, it just goes into the black screen and asks for the
password which we dont know. The computer is a Dell Dimension 8200. I tried
on boot up to hit f2, f8,f 12 etc..NO LUCK

"Colin Barnhorst" wrote:

> The first thing is to go into the BIOS and make sure that the cd drive is
> ahead of the hard drive in the boot order so you can at least boot into the
> Windows cd.
>
> "Marty" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:CC6D6D7A-CD98-42F8-98C6-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > The Hard drive has XP on it but I think some idiot tried to install ME and
> > when I boot it just gives me the black screen and asks for a password and
> > asks me to press enter to leave password security enable or press ctl
> > enter
> > to disable password security and no matter what button I press I get the
> > enter password. I tried to put my XP cd in and no luck. I tried to use a
> > boot disc and no luck. Is there any way I can boot up with and bypass the
> > password?
>

Click below, or copy/paste into your browser (or type - reset bios password -
into a search box).

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...+bios+password

"Marty" wrote:

> I cant get into the bios, it just goes into the black screen and asks for the
> password which we dont know. The computer is a Dell Dimension 8200. I tried
> on boot up to hit f2, f8,f 12 etc..NO LUCK
>
> "Colin Barnhorst" wrote:
>
> > The first thing is to go into the BIOS and make sure that the cd drive is
> > ahead of the hard drive in the boot order so you can at least boot into the
> > Windows cd.
> >
> > "Marty" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > news:CC6D6D7A-CD98-42F8-98C6-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > > The Hard drive has XP on it but I think some idiot tried to install ME and
> > > when I boot it just gives me the black screen and asks for a password and
> > > asks me to press enter to leave password security enable or press ctl
> > > enter
> > > to disable password security and no matter what button I press I get the
> > > enter password. I tried to put my XP cd in and no luck. I tried to use a
> > > boot disc and no luck. Is there any way I can boot up with and bypass the
> > > password?
> >