Having a good grasp of computers afriend from work gave me his laptop to fix, Advent 7110. He said hecould not get passed a password that had suddenly appeared. Thinking hemeant his XP logon, It should have been a 5 minute job to clear it.However, it seems to be a bios password. The laptop boots up and thepassword box appears. Tried the Phoenix back door passwords....PHOENIX,phoenix, CMOS, BIOS......no joy. Tried to boot up from a multiboot cd(crammed with diagnostic tools and password resetters) but bios must beset to boot from hdd. Password box won't let you do anything. Thoughtabout removing the cmos battery, googled to find a manual for theAdvent 7110, can't find one as yet, then started reading threads aboutPC World and passworded bios set ups......arrrrrgh. Don't know how toproceed. Surely resetting the cmos jumpers will remove this password???????? If so, still need a manual....back to google.
Any suggestions would be appreciated. Feel all alone in the dark.
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Apr 13, 2008
- Yes this link is to a Fuji Quanta EF6C which is virtually the same laptop, trouble is the server can't be found at the moment. I'll keep trying. Thanks for the help.
Apr 15, 2008
- Finally managed to download the file......cheers migregorio
-   please advise where you got the manual for dismanteling the advent???I need to reset the bleeping bios too. Very irritating. Gonna just get a screwdriver in a minute and hope for the best.-   studentukpoo
Dec 11, 2008
-   i have panasonic cf 29 and i have forgotton bios password can anyone please help thanks when switching on i press f2 screen goes blue and asks for admin password-   tracymurray1
Oct 17, 2008
-   I have an Advent laptop that when i turn it on it reads enter hdd password can anyone help me please
-   danboi
Oct 02, 2008
-   I have the same problem on a K200-   ready41t
Aug 28, 2008
-   i have the same problem with a advent 7113 need bios password or reset but dont no how to any ideas pleaseee-   lndchrch
i had the same prob mate in the end i bought a new hard drive cost me 40 quid from maplin but then i had another problem that was finding all the drivers for the lapp top i have found them all now appart from one (mass storage controller) i asume this controlls the mouse pad as its the only thing left on the lapp top i cant seem to get to work the drivers are near imposible to find my advise well i will never buy another advent machine oh i use a mouse witch i plug into the usb to get round the problem
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Would you buy an HP Mini 311 with WIN 7 or Toshiba Satellite T115?
HP
http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/computer_series.do?storeName=computer_store&category=notebooks&series_name=mini311_series&a1=Category&v1=Mini
Upgrades:
-Windows 7 Home Premium
-from 1 GB to 2 or 3 GB RAM (how much?)
-maybe upgrade hard drive
-N280 Processor
-Wireless G card with Bluetooth
Price: $529.99 - $594.99 (depending on RAM and/or hard drive)
Toshiba
http://laptops.toshiba.com/laptops/satellite/T100/T115-S1105
As is, no upgrades.
Price $479.99
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