Today, I was trying to revive my old desktop. I haven't been using it for quite a while, almost a year, it has been neglected and unused. I know you would say, what has it have to do with development. Well, for one, I could use it as a test PC. Two, it's my back-up PC in case, my laptop has a mishap.
Ok. I think, I placed the password myself as protection before, but have completely forgotten the password itself. I was in a dilema on how to remove it, on Chinese New Year. I have been searching around, and in my particular case, the way was to clear the password by using the board jumper and selecting clear password on the bios itself. Remember to save the settings, password will not prompt anymore when you boot your PC.
Here is the solution I got from a forum:
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Locate this jumper as show in the bellow image !!!
there are 3 pins, like * * * the pin would cover 1 and 2 pin which is the default config... - - * so take the pin out and put it as 2 and 3 cover like, * - - start the system
the BIOS should revart back to the default shipping factory settings... !!! now power of the system and restore the jumper to default 1 and 2 cover settings start the system once again to do you work -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Solution pictures and words between the lines are in no way mine. I just want to show the solution, without you scrolling or looking around the forums.
The solution and the full forum descussion can be found in this link:
http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/cpu-motherboards/79611-bios-password-intel-motherboard-d945gccr.html
Well, that solved my password problem, but not my unreadable master file table. Currently, my solution to the problem is to have retrievable data backed-up and reformat the OS partition.
This is due to the fact that my hard disk is more than 5 years old. One of them is already gone. The hard disk that is acting up, had an issue a few months from the time I bought it. I'm never buying from "PC Options" computer store again. A hard disk, a year older than the one gone is still working.
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