How do I get round a bios password?

[neil f]

Trying to upgrade an old PC from W95 to W98. Done the deltree thing. Booted
from system floppy, and tried to find setup.exe on W98 CD. Says no valid
drives other than C: So need to access bios to check that CD is still
configured, but password required. Is there any way round this?

Cheers.

 

[Frank Hagan]

"So need to access bios to check that CD is still
configured, but password required. Is there any way round this?"

Unplug the computer and remove the CMOS battery on motherboard (round silver
battery). Give it a minute or so, put battery back and start. Should clear
BIOS to default. BIOS passwords are a waste of time except to keep small
children and the technically challenged from messing with your computer ;-)

FRH

 

[Apollo]

Trying to upgrade an old PC from W95 to W98. Done the deltree thing. Booted
from system floppy, and tried to find setup.exe on W98 CD. Says no valid
drives other than C: So need to access bios to check that CD is still
configured, but password required. Is there any way round this?

Do you have cd dos drivers? do you see them load during the start-up of the
boot disk. if not then google for Ultimate Boot Disk and d/load this.

HTH

 

[neil f]

Do you have cd dos drivers? do you see them load during the start-up of the
boot disk. if not then google for Ultimate Boot Disk and d/load this.

My son is doing this operation at a remote location without Internet access
(namely his girlfriend's flat). He says he sees the cd drivers loading from
the floppy, (but this is only a W95 system floppy - don't know whether
that's relevant). If he has no further luck he's going to head for a
library tomorrow and download the Ultimate Boot Disk and try that.

Cheers.

 

[neil f]

"So need to access bios to check that CD is still
configured, but password required. Is there any way round this?"

Unplug the computer and remove the CMOS battery on motherboard (round silver
battery). Give it a minute or so, put battery back and start. Should clear
BIOS to default. BIOS passwords are a waste of time except to keep small
children and the technically challenged from messing with your computer

;-)

Cheers. We're going to try a couple of other things first but if no luck
we'll go for the battery approach.

 

[Conor]

My son is doing this operation at a remote location without Internet access
(namely his girlfriend's flat). He says he sees the cd drivers loading from
the floppy, (but this is only a W95 system floppy - don't know whether
that's relevant). If he has no further luck he's going to head for a
library tomorrow and download the Ultimate Boot Disk and try that.

You need a Win98 startup disk.