Please Help! Extremely Desperate! Bios Calamity

I am as desperate as can be. I have a term paper due tommorow, which has taken me three months to write, and I completely fucked myself over while fooling around in Bios.

There was a feature where instead of pressing the power button, one could enter a password instead. I had no idea what the hell it was so i figured id try it.

Im as close to an idiot as can be. So now i try to use the password and it doesnt work. Does anyone know what to do....Im so desperate I cant even begin to explain.

It was in Bios, and its title had to do with entering a password for power.

PLEASE HELP!!

 

I can't really help you since I dont know about computers but if you are in a fix you can probly call bestbuy and see if someone oculd look at it immediately. good luck.

 

That wouldn't make any sense, as the computer would have to be on in the first place so you could type the password.

What happens when you press the power button? Does it start up and stop at a certain point?

 

It is possible to reset it, but you'll need to open the case, and fiddle around with stuff. You have two choices, one is to find the reset jumper, which is a bit of plastic that covers two out of a set of 3 pins. Its best if you have a manual to find it, but if not you might be able to find it anyway since they are often labled (BIOS or CMOS reset or something like that). They are usually near a little round battery. If you can find it, use some tweezers to pull it off and push it onto the other 2 of the 3 pins (basically you're connecting the centre pin to the other one, which is the ground, so it discharges the memory). This needs to be done with the computer off but plugged in (it has to be grounded). Leave it for about 10 seconds then put the jumper back on the original two pins, and you should be able to carry on as normal, although you may have to set some stuff back up in the BIOS since it will all go back to default. If you can't find the reset, you can just take the round battery out, with the computer unplugged. Leave it for a few minutes and then replace it and start the computer. Again, all the setting should have gone back to default. If you're not happy fiddling around with you're computer though its much better to take it to someone else to get it sorted, in particular since the jumpers can be very fiddly, and are easily lost.

 

The removing CMOS battery was the first thing i thought of, but if you don't want to try that, you could just take your HD out, put it in another box, and get to your paper that way.

 

I don't know how you'd access an internal laptop drive and use it somewhere else but at all possible costs you should save that hard drive. Though, in my experience some problems do call for a comlpete reinstall of windows in which case everything you saved is doomed. sorry. hope that's not your case.

 

ah..didn't know it was a laptop.

probably going to need to make a call to the manufactuer or seller, as most people don't have the tools and knowledge to be messing around on the inside of their laptop.

 

Where did he say anything about it being a laptop? Anyways... if you give us more information (answer our questions) we might be able to help you out of this jam that you are in. Let us know what your computer is doing when you turn it on. Are you getting a password prompt, error message, or is it crashing?

 

You could just do what I did in college...stay home and get wasted instead, then use your computer problems as an excuse for not showing up.

 

that smlchance guy said
"I don't know how you'd access an internal laptop drive and use it"

so i figured he knew somethin' i didn't.

i demand my free monkey.
and we shall do battle when i arrive home.

 

Hey,
Thanks everyone for their help. I reset the Bios like you guys said, removed the battery, and removed the harddrive all at diffrent times. It hasn't worked, so I'm thinking something happened to it that wasnt related to the Bios messup.

All my components are compatible if anyone is wondering.

Also, I removed and replaced it with another compatible one the power supply as nothing worked, and although the motherboard showed power, the computer did not turn on. Now Im thinking my motherboard is shot. If thats the case, it would be my second motherboard since september. First an Abit broke so I switched to ASUS and that broke as well. Theyre all compatible with my chip but they tend to short out or some components stop working.

I brought it to my friend at Best Buy and he had the same result as I did. Im sick of paying 200 for a newboard only for it to somehow stop working.

I think I might abandon this rig. Sell of the components and start over anew.

Thanks to everyone for helping anyway.

THeo

ps, I got an external hard drive reader and set it up to a borrowed laptop, so my term paper is alright!

 

might want to quit replacin the mobo....and put a voltimeter on that power supply.

if i was to take a shot in the dark on what was fryin' what.

 

The power supply... It's always the power supply... It's possible that it fried the mobo, but also possible that the mobo is fine and it's just the power supply that has a problem.

 

Thanks guys, but I replaced the powerr supply with another that was compatible with no luck. I just spent all my cash on a new desktop. 1300 for a 3.8ghz so im happy.
thanks anyways guys
theo

 

Many newer computers also have a bios reset or password reset button on the motherboard, it is usally near the cmos battery...My best results come from:
Removing the CMOS Battery,
Unplug the hard drive cables,
Hold down the reset button for 15 seconds
Replace the Battery
Boot Up
Go in Setup mode, save your changes
shutdown
replace the HD cables
restart.