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How to Bypass or Remove a BIOS Password

December 4, 2007 by Bryce Whitty

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A BIOS password is a protection measure that can be used to stop someone powering up a
computer system or making changes in some of the computers most sensitive areas. Many big
name computer manufacturers such as Dell and HP lock the customers out of this area because
they don’t want the customer changing anything and potentially damaging the machine (which
the manufacturer may have to warranty). However, when someone like a computer technician or
hardware enthusiast needs to make some hardware changes to the computer, they will need to
access the BIOS. Here are some methods to be a bios password cracker, removing a BIOS
password.

NOTE: Do not try to guess the password on a passworded Hard Drive. 3 wrong guesses will
often result in the information on the hard drive being lost forever.

How to Bypass or Remove a BIOS Password by Removing the CMOS Battery:


The simplest way to remove a BIOS password is to simply remove the CMOS battery. A
computer will remember its settings and keep the time even when it is turned off and unplugged
because these parts are powered by small battery inside the computer called a CMOS battery. If
we pull out this battery, the computer will forget alot of its hardware settings, including its BIOS
password. This should not be performed on Laptops if you are not experienced working with
laptop hardware.

Anyway, open up the computer case using a screw driver and locate the flat,
circular and metallic CMOS battery. It should look something like the
picture to the right. Some computers have this part standing upright.

Once you have located it, observe how the latches are holding it. There are
many different ways to remove a CMOS battery but the most common way on newer computers
can be seen in the picture below.

Make sure to power down the computer, unplug the power cables and unplug
any USB devices if they are powered. The computer must not be able to get
power from anywhere for this to work. Take out the CMOS battery and wait
10 – 25 minutes before putting it back in. The reason for this wait is because
the computer can still store power in its capacitors even though everything is unplugged. The
waiting period allows enough time for them to discharge.
Plug everything back in, power up the computer and enter the BIOS again. If everything went
well there should be no more password. In some cases, if you get weird error messages during
bootup now, you will need to goto “Load BIOS Defaults” in BIOS and save the changes to fix
them.

If this method didn’t work, try one of the methods below.

How to Bypass or Remove a BIOS Password using Software:


!BIOS is a freeware utility which is designed to be a whole BIOS and security suite. It has the
ability to decrypt the passwords used in some of the most common BIOS makes such as Award,
Phoenix, American Megatrends, IMB etc..
It also has the ability to brute force the password (known as “blasters”). However, this method is
dangerous and can result in some unexpected and unwanted results.

Note: Because of this applications password cracking abilities, some antivirus software may
report it as a virus/trojan. This is a false positive.

To start using !BIOS, reboot your computer and take note of the BIOS type and version you are
running. For example, If your motherboard uses Award BIOS you should look for the text
“Award Medallion BIOS 6.0” or something similar.

Download !BIOS from here and save it to your desktop. Then, open a DOS command windows
by going to Start > Run and type: cmd

Once you see a black screen in front of you, type: cd desktop


You should now see something like: C:\Documents and Settings\YourUserName\Desktop>

Now type the name of the file you just downloaded, if you haven’t changed the name just type
in: bios320.exe

Use the down arrow and choose “Crackers” and then press the right arrow.
Using the up and down arrows, select the BIOS that the motherboard is using
and press Enter.

You should now see a menu asking what you want to crack, in most cases its the Supervisor or
System Passwords you want to crack, so press the 1 key on your keyboard. It will then show you
another menu asking how you want it to be cracked. Option 1 is pretty good so try that first by
pressing the 1 key on your keyboard. You should now have your BIOS password.

Reboot the computer, enter the BIOS and try it out.

How to Bypass or Remove a BIOS Password using the manufacturer backdoor password:

On many computers (especially old ones), computer manufacturers build in backdoor passwords
for their own technicians to use so they can access the BIOS when the hardware is being
serviced. Here are some of the ones that have been reported. You may need to try quite a few
passwords before you find one that works

These passwords are CaSe SeNsItIve.

AMI BIOS Backdoor Passwords:

 A.M.I.
 AAAMMMII
 AMI
 AMI?SW
 AMI_SW
 BIOS
 CONDO
 HEWITT RAND
 LKWPETER
 MI
 Oder
 PASSWORD

Award BIOS Backdoor Passwords:

o (eight spaces)
o 01322222
o 589589
o 589721
o 595595
o 598598
o ALFAROME
o ALLY
o ALLy
o aLLY
o aLLy
o aPAf
o award
o AWARD PW
o AWARD SW
o AWARD?SW
o AWARD_PW
o AWARD_SW
o AWKWARD
o awkward
o IOSTAR
o CONCAT
o CONDO
o Condo
o condo
o d8on
o djonet
o HLT
o J256
o J262
o j262
o j322
o j332
o J64
o KDD
o LKWPETER
o Lkwpeter
o PINT
o pint
o SER
o SKY_FOXSYXZ
o SKY_FOX
o syxz
o SYXZ
o TTPTHA
o ZAAAADA
o ZAAADA
o ZBAAACA
o ZJAAADC

Russian Award BIOS Passwords:

 %øåñòü ïpîáåëîâ%
 %äåâÿòü ïpîáåëîâ%

Phoenix Backdoor BIOS Passwords:

 BIOS
 CMOS
 phoenix
 PHOENIX

Other Manufcaturers Backdoor Passwords: (manufacturer name – password)

 VOBIS and IBM – merlin


 Dell – Dell
 Biostar – Biostar
 Compaq – Compaq
 Enox – xo11nE
 Epox – central
 Freetech – Posterie
 IWill – iwill
 Jetway – spooml
 Packard Bell – bell9
 QDI – QDI
 Siemens – SKY_FOX
 SOYO – SY_MB
 TMC – BIGO
 Toshiba – Toshiba

Misc Common Passwords:

 ALFAROME
BIOSTAR
biostar
biosstar
CMOS
cmos
LKWPETER
lkwpeter
setup
SETUP
Syxz
Wodj

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