Hello All,
I have the aforementioned laptop that I just purchased on ebay that was listed as having a BIOS password. Sure enough, on boot it requests a password. Here's the troubleshooting steps I've tried.
1. just entering a blank password as I've seen where if it's an admin password instead of a user password, I can enter the BIOS as user and still enter Windows. I still receive Invalid Password, I'm assuming this means it's actually a user password or both user and admin password.
2. I've removed both the main battery and CMOS battery, disconnected from power and held the power button down for about 1 minute. Hooking up only the power adapter, I turn the laptop back on, it goes through 2 reboots once it reaches the ASUS ROG logo, then on the 3rd boot, requests a password again.
3. I tried pressing Alt+R since I read on some of these, it will generate a date code that can be decoded, this did not work and just entered an "r" in the password entry.
I'm assuming at this point that the passwords are stored separately in an EEPROM chip or something. I don't have any tools at the moment for doing any kind of flashes or anything, but depending on the difficulty and cost, I wouldn't mind purchasing one to attempt a flash. I investigated simply replacing the main board, but those cost around 600$ from what I've seen and that would defeat the purpose since it would bring the cost of the laptop back to it's normal asking price (I paid 300$ for it).
Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions for me to try to get this reset, other than return it to the seller lol?
I have the aforementioned laptop that I just purchased on ebay that was listed as having a BIOS password. Sure enough, on boot it requests a password. Here's the troubleshooting steps I've tried.
1. just entering a blank password as I've seen where if it's an admin password instead of a user password, I can enter the BIOS as user and still enter Windows. I still receive Invalid Password, I'm assuming this means it's actually a user password or both user and admin password.
2. I've removed both the main battery and CMOS battery, disconnected from power and held the power button down for about 1 minute. Hooking up only the power adapter, I turn the laptop back on, it goes through 2 reboots once it reaches the ASUS ROG logo, then on the 3rd boot, requests a password again.
3. I tried pressing Alt+R since I read on some of these, it will generate a date code that can be decoded, this did not work and just entered an "r" in the password entry.
I'm assuming at this point that the passwords are stored separately in an EEPROM chip or something. I don't have any tools at the moment for doing any kind of flashes or anything, but depending on the difficulty and cost, I wouldn't mind purchasing one to attempt a flash. I investigated simply replacing the main board, but those cost around 600$ from what I've seen and that would defeat the purpose since it would bring the cost of the laptop back to it's normal asking price (I paid 300$ for it).
Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions for me to try to get this reset, other than return it to the seller lol?
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