Hi All,
Hope someone can help, I need to remove a BIOS password. Does anyone have any experience using cmospwd on HP (or any) laptops? I'm unsure about using it, I've seen some people say it can brick a laptop due to RAM configuration and something to do with the proprietary mainboards.
I need to remove a BIOS password from an HP Pavilion 15 aw084sa but unfortunately I get an alpha-numeric (apparently the numeric code encrypted) checksum after failing the password 3 times, so I can't use the generators like bios-pw . org . I've seen somewhere that apparently you can press one of the Function buttons (F2??) to display the checksum numerically but it hasn't worked for me.
I've updated the BIOS from within Win10, I've tried flashing the BIOS from USB, I've disassembled the rear enclosure from the laptop and completely disconnected and removed the mainboard for about 20 mins (the RTC itself isn't accessible from the rear enclosure only the connector to the mainboard).
If anyone has any ideas short of swearing at it a lot (I've also tried that!!!) I'd be really greatful. Or if anyone can teach me to decode the checksum of the BIOS password that'd be massively brilliant.
Anyway, thanks in advance everyone.
