If you can access the CMOS battery on the motherboard remove it for 10-15 minutes and replace it, this should reset the BIOS and the password. Not sure if this can be done with a Sony Vaio though
I think that is correct; I bet their web site might even offer how to do it -or the manual. I mean one day it will eventually need to be replaced anyway right!
Not all OEM's will have motherboard instructions on their website, they do not want their 'average' user wrecking the internal components but you might just get lucky depending on the OEM. If you did know the motherboard manufacture you would get a more detailed manual from them. As in replacing the CMOS battery, yes at some point it may need replaced or at least reset.
good point on the 'average' user. meanwhile 2.3 million screens are stuck @ "press any key to continue" where's the "any" key???
If i remember right I think that if you're unlucky you can **** ** your bios by removing the "clock" battery. *=Insert any word<s> you think might fit there <grins> Disclamer: I might tell a 100% lie in this post, i'm not sure and i'm about to get of the comp got no time to search for the correct answer
A few years ago I spent a few hundred $$'s to get this reset. Makes me mad to know this is all they did.
I well believe that you spent a couple of hundred $$ to get it fixed and I know people who charge at least $100 to fix something like this. You can imagine how much money PC repair companies/people can make from people like yourself.
Which is sad since most computers do come with a reset/config jumper for the bios that will get you around most password protected bioses... But that one? Maybe this will help? http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/579009962631/m/707001959731
Yes I totally agree there and now whats worse is that many OEM's are starting to make their systems more difficult to troubleshoot or to fiddle with.