The best way to go about this would be to take the CMOS battery out of the motherboard, and than turn on the PC. This should look like a watch battery.
After you have turned the PC on, it should beep, this is ok.. Turn the PC off again, re-insert the CMOS chip to the board and try turning the PC back on, and enter the BIOS. The password should be reset.
Sincerely,
Ryan Deschaine
Systems Administrator
Boxen Solutions LLC
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I have a P4GV-LA mobo in a Compaq Presario SR1503WM. It belongs to my father who got a virus he...
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I have a P4GV-LA mobo in a Compaq Presario SR1503WM. It belongs to my father who got a virus he wanted me to remove. I live over 1,000 miles away so he mailed the hard drive to me, I put the hard drive in another Compaq Pc and completely cleaned it up and sent it back. IT DIDN'T WORK. Trying to walk him through troubleshooting over the phone was next to impossible, (he's 81) so he shipped the whole pc to me. The bios shows all 4 ide's but does not see the hard drive. I've tried all the jumper settings for slave and master but get nothing. I've also tried other hard drives with same results. Please help. THX