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will121162
By will121162
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1 minute ago, will121162 said:

its a custom desk top with a gigabyte mobo

Turn off and unplug the PC at the wall. Open PC up. Remove the coin size battery. Wait 30mins. Put the battery back in. Close PC. Plug back in. Turn back on. BIOS password should be gone.

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can you reset the bios password as i have forgotten it and want to over clock my CPU

its a desktop pc fyi

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1 minute ago, will121162 said:

can you reset the bios password as i have forgotten it and want to over clock my CPU

Laptop or desktop?

Main Gaming Rig:

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Core i7-4770, Cryorig M9i Cooler, ASUS B85M GAMER, 8GB HyperX Fury Red 2x4GB 1866MHz, KFA2 GTX 970 Infin8 Black Edition "4GB", 1TB Seagate SSHD, 256GB Crucial m4 SSD, 60GB Corsair SSD for Kerbal and game servers, Thermaltake Core V21 Case, EVGA SuperNOVA 650W G2.

Secondary PC:

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i5-2500k OCed, Raijintek Themis, Intel Z77GA-70K, 8GB HyperX Genesis in grey, GTX 750 Ti, Gamemax Falcon case.

 

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1 minute ago, NinjaJc01 said:

Laptop or desktop?

its a custom desk top with a gigabyte mobo

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If you have a laptop open the cover at the bottom of your laptop and pull that batterry out for 30 seconds then inserted again and then put the cover back on then open your laptop, done!

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1 minute ago, will121162 said:

its a custom desk top with a gigabyte mobo

Turn off and unplug the PC at the wall. Open PC up. Remove the coin size battery. Wait 30mins. Put the battery back in. Close PC. Plug back in. Turn back on. BIOS password should be gone.

Main Gaming Rig:

Spoiler

Core i7-4770, Cryorig M9i Cooler, ASUS B85M GAMER, 8GB HyperX Fury Red 2x4GB 1866MHz, KFA2 GTX 970 Infin8 Black Edition "4GB", 1TB Seagate SSHD, 256GB Crucial m4 SSD, 60GB Corsair SSD for Kerbal and game servers, Thermaltake Core V21 Case, EVGA SuperNOVA 650W G2.

Secondary PC:

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i5-2500k OCed, Raijintek Themis, Intel Z77GA-70K, 8GB HyperX Genesis in grey, GTX 750 Ti, Gamemax Falcon case.

 

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remove coin size battery or flip the 3 pin jumper in the bottom right of it, do either for 40s or more, put the battery or jumper back in its original position, reconnect power and done

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