[cservonyec]

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Originally Posted by mschwimer

The CMOS battery is located in the CDROM bay. The leads from the battery (black&red) run up the motherboard and plug in next to the ribbon cable for the touchpad. The password is stored on the small (1x1.5") chip that is plugged in next to the modem. The printing on my chip states "TCPA SECURITYB" Undo the screw, remove and toss the chip, and unplug the leads from the battery. Also pull the hard drive, battery and unplug the AC adapter. Set the laptop aside and go have a smoke. Come back later (I waited 15 minutes) and plug in the AC and press the power button (do not plug the battery leads back in or reinsert anything else, just press the power button) This will flash the BIOS and ask you if you want to save. Save the settings and power back down. Put the laptop back together and enjoy, password free.

Hi I have the same problem as Joeshannellie. Originally the hard drive died. So I replaced the hard drive, had the problem of master password, disconnected the battery, and set the date and time, and what I thought, reset the password, both, to nothing. So installed operating system, winxp on the laptop, everything worked fine. However my friend brought it back and said it just won't boot anymore, it worked for a few days ok.
Now the damned thing is when booting, it just goes into a flashing cursor, and that is it. If I press F10 to get into the bios it asks for the password again, and nothing works, no four zero's as someone suggested, nothing. I couldn't find any "TCPA SecurityB" chip anywhere in the laptop. Can someone help with a little bit more specific information, like precise location of security chip if it exists? Please Help!