Lost password for setup utility

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Hi All
Is there a way I can bypass or get into the setup utility I have fitted a
new hard drive and load windows home (previous drive windows 2000) The guy
who built this computer entered a password for reasons only he knows as he
built it for a friend. and can not remember the password. the reason I need
to get into the utility is that when loading it tells mew the HDD is disabled.
Any advice would be helpful.
Thanks.

(Mother board is Gigabyte Technology Co Ltd GA-7DXE 1.x)
 
MRRIGGA said:
Hi All
Is there a way I can bypass or get into the setup utility I have fitted a
new hard drive and load windows home (previous drive windows 2000) The guy
who built this computer entered a password for reasons only he knows as he
built it for a friend. and can not remember the password. the reason I need
to get into the utility is that when loading it tells mew the HDD is disabled.
Any advice would be helpful.
Thanks.

(Mother board is Gigabyte Technology Co Ltd GA-7DXE 1.x)
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The bios reset jumper needs to be moved over one notch, then returned to the
normal position.

Look in the mobo manual (it's avail on-line)

Or look closely at the labels on the mobo...

(it's usually near the cmos battery0


If you have trouble finding it , you can usually reset the bios by removing
the cmos battery for
a few minutes (or perhaps as long as an hour or so)
 
MRRIGGA said:
Hi All
Is there a way I can bypass or get into the setup utility I have fitted a
new hard drive and load windows home (previous drive windows 2000) The guy
who built this computer entered a password for reasons only he knows as he
built it for a friend. and can not remember the password. the reason I need
to get into the utility is that when loading it tells mew the HDD is disabled.
Any advice would be helpful.
Thanks.

(Mother board is Gigabyte Technology Co Ltd GA-7DXE 1.x)
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There's normally a clearly labeled jumper switch for the purose of
resetting the BIOS and/or password on the motherboard. The motherboard
manufacturer should have specific instructions for resetting these on
it's web site.


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Thanks Guys
Your advice done the trick.
Next problem trying to format the old hard drive to use as storage get a
message that the NTLDR is missing, sorry bit thick what is the NTLDR and how
do I get around this problem.
This drive had been partioned if that helps.
Thanks again
 
MRRIGGA said:
Thanks Guys
Your advice done the trick.
Next problem trying to format the old hard drive to use as storage get a
message that the NTLDR is missing, sorry bit thick what is the NTLDR and how
do I get around this problem.
This drive had been partioned if that helps.
Thanks again
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Just use disk management to format the spare drive...
if you have problems...delete the whole drive...then re-create
 
Hi Philo
I done as you said. The hd looks formated and and management tells me it is
not when I try to reformat it tells me it format failed also deleted whole
drive still tells me need to format It is now saying disk is unallocated but
did not think this would matter for storage. Would this be something to do
with this missing NTLD whatever this is.
B J G
 
Hi,
Could you please tell me what the CMOS battery is and where in the computer can I find it.

Thanks,
Tim
 
Tim said:
Hi,
Could you please tell me what the CMOS battery is and where in the computer can I find it.

Thanks,
Tim
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The CMOS battery keeps the time and date when the PC is off. It is on the
MB (MotherBoard), about the size of a US quarter.
 
Tim said:
Hi,
Could you please tell me what the CMOS battery is and where in the computer can I find it.

Thanks,
Tim
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http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000239.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonvolatile_BIOS_memory#CMOS_battery

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/pc1.htm


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safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin

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killed a great many philosophers.
~ Denis Diderot
 
EncinoMan said:
Sure. If you ask in a real hardware forum that deals with your
mainboard you can get your answer. This question has nothing to do
with XP and does not belong here.

Ask elsewhere
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A little picky are we???

It does not mater where one asks,
the cmos battery is still going to be a shiny object on the mobo

approx the size of a US nickel or perhaps a quarter..

once the case is open it should be obvious

a good one should read about 3 volts
 
encino answer is extremely stupid,
any hardware problem is in certain way independent of the OS
in the sense that you could post pronblems on any OS forum
so people would have to delete this forum,
.... if encino were correct
encino, if people post anything on this forum,
its because they use Windows XP,
this fourm is

microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware

Carlos.
 
EncinoMan said:
Sure. If you ask in a real hardware forum that deals with your
mainboard you can get your answer. This question has nothing to do
with XP and does not belong here.

Ask elsewhere
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Yes, ask in a hardware newsgroup. Since this *is* a hardware newsgroup a
better plan woud be to just ignore our resident ****wit.
 
Hi,
Could you please tell me what the CMOS battery is and where in the
computer can I find it.

Thanks,
Tim
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The appearance of the cmos battery really depends on the age of the
motherboard. Current ones use the 3.3V watch battery type. Much older
models had battery packs that actually look like your common AA batteries.
One oddity is the Dallas chip, its a chip that has a battery within it.
Took me awhile to figure that one out on one decade old motherboard.
 
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