Need to flash the bios to get the password off guy who gave me the comp is out of contact an vista install failed trying to boot from cd but password comes up at bios entry an boot menu
You cannot remove the password by flashing the bios. However, there are two possibilities that _might_ work, depending on how that particular model works:
1. Unplug the computer and remove the internal clock battery for a few hours at least - maybe overnight
2. Some motherboards have a "CMOS Reset" jumper on them that you can use to reset any password in the BIOS (and any other BIOS settings). It will probably be a two position jumper on the motherboard, usually somewhere near the clock battery. Put the jumper on the opposite position that it is in, power up the computer for about 30 seconds, power off the computer, then replace the jumper back to it's original spot. Then boot up the computer normally and you should be able to go into the BIOS
These two options don't apply to all systems, but probably most of them. IBMs are an exception because they store the BIOS passwords encrypted in a memory chip that doesn't require battery backup, so on them there is no way to reset the password. Hopefully yours is not like that and one of the solutions I gave will work.
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