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    Reseting Motherboard

    Hi all,

    I have a hp pavilion ze4610US notebook. Now there is a bios password on it and I can not get in. I took me a while but I found the battery on the motherboard. Now I took that out and let the laptop sit for 24 hrs thinking that it was enough time to let the capacitors drain. I put the laptop back together and the bios password is still comming up. Should I leave it unplugged for longer? How long?


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    There's normally a jumper on desktop boards, not sure about laptops though. You could strip it right down and look but may not even be there :/

    I guess leaving it unplugged for as long as you've got might work, unless it's stored in persistant memory...

    A service manual would be you best help (if you can find one!)

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    What about Flashing the BIOS?

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    Unplug the notebook from the power source and remove main battery. Press the power button a couple of times to drain the capacitors. Remove the mobo battery and leave for at least 24hrs, maybe longer and then fire it up.

    Ideally you need a cmos clear jumper, but i dont think you'll have the option on that mobo.

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