Unable to use keyboard, mouse or floopy disk

[Guest]

Hi there, I wonder if somebody can help me, sometimes ago I tried to change
the user name, password and domain on my computer (Window 2000), and as I was
booting up I entered the Setup where I enable the password that the above
should not work, I honestly can explain what I did. But now I couldn't get
into set up when booting agai, the keyboard will not respond, all the lights
will be blinking one after another (i.e. Num locks, Caps Lock, Scroll Lock
lights) I tried to boot from the floopy disk but when it reach a certain
stage, it asked for the password, and upon typing the password it will
display an error - 'NTLDR is missng' and when I removed the disk it will
continue booting. I have tried so many things to remove this but nothing
seems to work.
Can you please tell me what to do, to remove this password so that I will be
able to enter the set up again. Thank you very much, and happy new year to
you all.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hi there, I wonder if somebody can help me, sometimes ago I tried to change
the user name, password and domain on my computer (Window 2000), and as I was
booting up I entered the Setup where I enable the password that the above
should not work, I honestly can explain what I did. But now I couldn't get
into set up when booting agai, the keyboard will not respond, all the lights
will be blinking one after another (i.e. Num locks, Caps Lock, Scroll Lock
lights) I tried to boot from the floopy disk but when it reach a certain
stage, it asked for the password, and upon typing the password it will
display an error - 'NTLDR is missng' and when I removed the disk it will
continue booting. I have tried so many things to remove this but nothing
seems to work.
Can you please tell me what to do, to remove this password so that I will be
able to enter the set up again. Thank you very much, and happy new year to
you all.

Your description is a little vague but it sounds as if you set
a BIOS password (which has nothing whatsoever to do with
Windows). Get back into the BIOS and remove that password.
If you don't remember how, here are a couple of options:

- Read the manual that came with your PC. It has a whole
section on how to get into the BIOS, or
- Remove the shiny battery on your motherboard for ten minutes,
then put it back. On most PCs this has the effect of removing
the BIOS password.

 

[Guest]

Thanks Pegaus, but if I remove the battrey will I still have my system in the
same mode, and will not loose anything. Thanks

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

You will not lose anything by removing the battery other
than the date and the time. On old systems you would have
to tell the BIOS to "re-discover" the hard disk. On new
systems this happens automatically.

As I said, read the manual that came with your PC!