Removing password from Bios

My uncle has an old laptop and there is a password on the bios, I want to fix it for him but I don't know a workaround (he doesn't know the password anymore). Do any of you guys know a method I could use? Thanks.

Just open the computer, remove the BIOS battery for around 30 secs and then place it back in.ForsakenWicked

Its a laptop, the battery will most likely be hid behind the shell and it may very well be soldered to the actual motherboard, so removing it might break the laptop!

Sorry OP but thats going to be very difficult to fix.

[QUOTE="ForsakenWicked"]Just open the computer, remove the BIOS battery for around 30 secs and then place it back in.Daytona_178

[QUOTE="Daytona_178"][QUOTE="ForsakenWicked"]Just open the computer, remove the BIOS battery for around 30 secs and then place it back in.SAGE_OF_FIRE

Is there a way that I can format the laptop without having to worry about the password?

Is there a way that I can format the laptop without having to worry about the password?

SAGE_OF_FIRE

You could remove the hard drive and plug it in to another computer. That would let you format the drive. The bios password is not related to your harddrive however. The bios resides in the motherboard, you can think of it as the little bit of software that starts up the harddrive. Hence even if you format your harddrive you would still have to deal wiht the bios password.

be sure to try some of the common passwords, you'd be suprised how many people use them.

123, 111, 000, 999, 1234, 123456, 123456, password, 12345678, lifehack, qwerty, abc123, 111111, monkey, consumer, 12345, 0, letmein, and trustno1.

source: http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/7681253-the-13-most-common-passwords-revealed/content/69042205-common-passwords-to-avoid