flash the bios??

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Hello. I got an old computer from a place that shut down. What I did was take out the hard drive and put an other one. However they had a password on the bios and the computer does not want to search for the hard drive I put in it. It just looks to see if its the same and it isin`t and well I cant get into the bios to change it manually. I aint dumb in computers but this is something I really need help with. I`ve heard that you can flash the bios, as in clear it and reinstall it somehow but I do not know how. Can anyone help me out. Thank you.

Eric
 
Usually you can clear the BIOS password by finding the "clear CMOS" jumper on the motherboard. It will usually be near the BIOS chip somewhere.

You just move the jumper from its current position to the other possible position (usually its 3 pins, with the first two shorted. Well you go and move it to short 2nd and 3rd.) Then move it back to the way it was, before doing anything else (although the 2nd article I link to below has slightly different suggestions... oh well)

http://www.aopen.com/tech/rma/mb/cmos.htm

Do all this with the power turned off and computer unplugged.

Alternatively, you can remove the battery and wait several minutes, up to half an hour. Then put it back. But make sure you don't break the clips.


Look here too for other ways: http://www.labmice.net/articles/BIOS_hack.htm
 
flash cmos

I had posted a tread a while back. I was asking how to flash the bios because I had received a computer from someone and the bios had a password in it. I was given info on how to do it, however I am having lots of trouble. First of all I cannot even locate the cmos jumpers or even the cmos battery. I looked all over the mother board and cant even find a chip. I aint dumb with this but i`m thinking that i am blind. It needs to be there however I cannot see it. Any other way that I can do it? I tried the moving the jumpers around and putting them back at the same place. I did it with every single jumper I saw and still no progress. Any help would be appreciated.
 
Find the cmos battery
If you've ever seen a watch battery it looks EXACTLY like it. it's about 1 cm diamater.

Just take it out, start your comp, shut your comp off, put it back in.

CAUTION: there is a possibility you can screw things up by doing this though, personally i've never had any trouble with it though.
 
This has nothing to do with "flashing the BIOS" by the way.

Bypassing a password is different.
 
I know what a cmos battery loks liuke and there isin`t any in it. I was expecting to find one where you have to take this plastic cover off but there isin`t one like that either. I have to clue what kind on mother board it is. This computer is old like hell. I just want to use it to put on my network to put stuff on it. Like its only 90 mega hertz, so ya its pretty old. The only thing I found on the mother board is this number, GA-586ATE
 
Well that's the model number, its made by Gigabyte.

I couldn't find a diagram on the web...
 
You didn't happen to get a book with your computer did you?

If you still have it, it might contain that information in there.
 
No, it was just given to me without anything. I`ll try and look for a diagram. Thanks alot
 
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