Advent T200 Asking For BIOS Password
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Advent T200 Asking For BIOS Password
Fitted with W10, the HDD died. I put a new one but on boot, straight after the Advent logo it asks for a password. Tried the old trick of removing CMOS battery, but no joy. Tried the google suggestion of wrong password 3 times generating an error code which can be decoded, but it doesn't do that. Any thoughts please?
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Re the Bios Prompt
On my Advent PC, I select F2 on start up to get into the BIOS.
Try this and go to the Security Tab and deselect BIOS Password if you can.
It sounds as the PC has reverted to factory settings at some stage.
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Try this and go to the Security Tab and deselect BIOS Password if you can.
It sounds as the PC has reverted to factory settings at some stage.
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It seems that recent laptops have an EPROM that stores certain things - these are not affected by removing the CMOS battery and there are no pins to short. Looking for a second hand mobo!
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Fitted with W10, the HDD died. I put a new one but on boot, straight after the Advent logo it asks for a password. Tried the old trick of removing CMOS battery, but no joy. Tried the google suggestion of wrong password 3 times generating an error code which can be decoded, but it doesn't do that. Any thoughts please?
I presume the laptop was running ok and for some reason you decided the hard drive was faulty and you have replaced it (Stage 2) normally. I think you have to ask yourself why is stage 1 now corrupt? Changing the hard drive should not cause a boot up problem. The BIOS runs up and looks to see where to go for it's system software (normally the hard drive but not exclusively) - are you sure you've installed the hard drive correctly? When the laptop is booting up from power on keep tapping the f2 key all the time the laptop is trying to boot - as in my experience sometimes the boot up sequence sometimes does not see a single key press. Try powering on the laptop without a hard drive in it at all and see how far you get.
No idea at all if this site is reputable or otherwise but they claim to have a solution. It may or may not be helpful in your case.
You might consider this -
Advent Computers | BIOS Password Helper
You might consider this -
Advent Computers | BIOS Password Helper
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JimJim than ks, but it doesn't throw up a code, just says password incorrect over and over. Even with no HDD fitted, it should go through the BIOS check and then say that no OS is seen.
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Thanks esa - yes I did and got nowhere. Now bought a second hand mobo off ebay for 20 quid - windows installed from a USB stick with no problems, and has even activated itself, so job done.