looking secure motherboard

aqarwaen

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are there any motherboards,what you cant reset using removing bios battery? are there any motherboard where removing battery wont remove password, i am looking motherboard what would prevent such kind thing.
 
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batteries die faster than motherboards so having a secured battery will require a new motherboard if the battery fails.
I do not know of any motherboards like what you seek.
you can secure the PC case with screw locks and other methods to prevent the battery removal.

cursory google search resulted in this
http://www.computersecurity.com/other/caselock.htm
shop around not an endorsement example only

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batteries die faster than motherboards so having a secured battery will require a new motherboard if the battery fails.
I do not know of any motherboards like what you seek.
you can secure the PC case with screw locks and other methods to prevent the battery removal.

cursory google search resulted in this
http://www.computersecurity.com/other/caselock.htm
shop around not an endorsement example only
 
Solution
Just about any modern laptop will do that. For example Dell removed the ability of CMOS clear to erase a BIOS password back in 2004, 14 years ago in order to make a stolen laptop useless.

With a desktop, it's generally considered safe enough to simply encrypt the hard disk. Clearing the BIOS then erases the key and the hard disk becomes permanently unreadable. Wouldn't be able to even format and reuse it.