Travelmate 800 series Question

The notebook = Travelmate 8xx series...

Tried to put a new blank passwd, after a reboot ... IT ASKS FOR A PASSWORD AND THE OLD ONE DOESN'T WORK.

SO, can i boot from floppy??

Fyi - NOT under warrenty

Thanx for any ideas.

 

Sorry if I'm missing it in your specs, but what OS are you running? I can't say much for any other OS, but if it's Windows XP there are several ways you could get around that. Trying to log in as the default Administrator that gets setup during the initial Windows install, assuming you remember that password. You may be able to log into the computer from Safe Mode and if you can, you can go online and use any number of free to moderately priced services that will reveal a portion of what they are expecting your password to be. I used to work for a university IT department and we had boot software for floppy or CD that would allow you to clear or change any Windows XP password. Don't recall the name, but I believe it was a freeware Linux app.

Of course, if you don't have Windows XP, it's all a mute point.

 

No, I mean the power up password? The password I need to input for the laptop to load the OS etc...

 

It could work removing for some time the internal back up battery that keeps the datas of bios as settings and hour.

 

According to this thread: Clearing CMOS on Travelmate 800 It isn't possible to clear the BIOS password by clearing the CMOS. Although, no one in that thread ever said how to actually clear the CMOS for your model. Another thread I found mentioned a piece of software called nukecmos that is meant to do this, but I can't attest to its effectiveness. I'd still try to start with clearing the CMOS and if that fails move on to testing random manufacturer's passwords. In my experience with various laptop and desktop models, clearing the CMOS wipes the BIOS password.