bios password protected

[KennM]

About a year ago i password protected the bios of my ECS 661FX-M to keep my son from messing things up and now i want to upgrade the cpu but i have forgotten the password and can't get into the bios setup. I tried the clear bios jumper but it still wants a password, and i have no clue what to do. Any help would be great.

 

[DukeDave]

Just take the battery out of the board for a couple of minutes, that should clear all bios settings.

 

[weilin]

you sure you used that jumper right? some boards require power on while short, others want the board unplugged. Some require the shorting of pins 2 & 3 while others wants just 1 & 2 some dont want any at all. Its as confusing as hell, make sure the procedure for ur board is right.

 

[I]

No board is supposed to require power on while shorted. It's quite simple: Unplug AC. Move jumper from present position to the other position. Done.

In cases where there's a 2nd nvram store, battery may need pulled but system post or getting into bios doesn't depend on 2nd nvram and 2nd nvram can be reset from bios menu.

 

[croc]

Don't know about that particular MB... you might be able to do a bios re-install / upgrade, if it lets you that might clear it.

 

[KennM]

pulling the battery worked thak you all very much.

 

[weilin]

u'd be surprised, the dells ive worked with did. You have to put jumper to 2-3 pins then turn the pc on. It will auto go to bios and u ahve to manually select "clear passwords" Then you had to turn the pc off and put the jumper back to normal. It was a PAIN.