Yeah no it is locked on bios password screen, what had happened is my nephew removed what he thought was the safe boot option by disabling the admin bios password but left the user password locked and exited bios and now it just sits on the bios password screen not loading into bios or anything and doesn’t accept any password or the alt+r option for recovery. I was hoping there were atleast cmos pins somewhere to short for a few seconds to drain the memory power but maybe loading a copy of bios update onto a flash and nothing it that way will bypass this and reset bios?

So if there is no cmos is there any other path to try the bios? I’ve tried draining battery, I’ve tried disconnecting battery and all from mobo and then draining residual power from mobo and nothing has reset the bios.

Anyone know if these boards use a cmos battery or a soldered on capacitor? If so where? I need to locate it to reset bios.

Hey every people, yes I spoke that way ironically. My name is Troy I’ve been raised with tech and went to mechanics 15 years ago and then a few years ago got diagnosed with crohns/colitis and became very familiar with computers again, and holy moly have computers changed even since when I was a teenager. Being stuck near home has granted me a newfound passion for tinkering with computers again. There’s so much more adversity these days and building my first new computer after close to 17 years was fun, research apon research and diagnosing friends and families hardware also fun to know I’m...