Forgot bios password

>forgot bios password
>'welp thats easy i just pull out the cmos battery'
>see this

give it back jamal

>desolder battery
>reattach
was that so hard?

You know there's usually a switch or jumper that accomplishes the same feat?

>forget BIOS password
>buy new computer

quality thread! upvoted

give it back radu

>that face when Coreboot fag
>that face when maximum customization and security
>that face when custom payload
>that face when I can just reflash Coreboot
>that face when it's a brick for Jamal

Why did you steal it Tyrone?

What am I looking at? Suicidal enterprise hardware?

Nigger stole a laptop that has a BIOS password thinking he can just pull the battery to reset it. But his plan was thwarted because the battery is soldered in place and niggers don't own soldering irons.

...

Don't newer boards uses non volatile memory to store configs where pulling the battery doesn't work.

learn2shortpind

oh shit they're upgrading, how do we prepare ourselves from this Sup Forums?

>forget BIOS password
>switch to using abacus

What kind of a shitty BIOS password clears by removing batt?

Old ones that didn't have a separate non-volatile memory for storing the password.

Is it really this easy to defeat the security on PCs?

On normal builds? Yeah. If you want anything more than that, you need to buy a special case that will pretty much destroy your data when you open it up

Oh yeah, and if you really were trying to make it secure, you'd have full disk encryption

See Show me any machine made in the last decade that does not store the password on a separate chip that has non-volatile memory and works only with your specific BIOS.
Sure you can still get past it, but you need to reflash both the password chip and CMOS externally.

no like hot scary things

Please... you'll run the bants

>oh shit they're upgrading, how do we prepare ourselves from this Sup Forums?
false alarm

>On normal builds? Yeah. If you want anything more than
>Is it really this easy to defeat the security on PCs?
I'm confused? I've done a cmos reboot and my password on boot stays. So I don't understand why the bios matters much. Is it because theres a means to work around that password or what?

I suppose a BIOS password is a really shitty form of security anyway: you should have full-disk encryption.

AFAIK there's no such thing as a 'BIOS password' on Macs for this reason.

>I've done a cmos reboot and my password on boot stays.
because

>you now have to draw red ellipses to "get" things
What a time to be alive

>AFAIK there's no such thing as a 'BIOS password' on Macs for this reason.
EFI still has it. On PCs and Macs. So did OpenFirmware on Macs almost two decades ago.

How do you set that up?

Seems sorta pointless since it doesn't stop someone from removing the drive from the computer.

cant really solder batteries, the issue is the heat fucks them hard, these things are tack welded, as in very fast heat for short time

a normal soldering iron would likely ignite the battery before it re welded.

Sorry. Sarcasm isn't my strong suit

His body proportions, they're all wrong....

My 2013 acer aspire and 2016 lenovo ideapad.
Also all my 2010+ desktops

>His body proportions, they're all wrong....
You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like

Aren't there any master passwords any more these days?

If someone gets physical access to your computer, you can't really do anything to stop them being able to pwn it

physical access = compromised

Drive encryption and firmware/BIOS passwords are different things for a reason, the latter is just for stopping someone booting from their own USB and imaging your drive or having any access to it at all, the first is to keep the data on the drive safe.
Pretty pointless to have drive encryption if someone can still force login to your system.

We are talking about BIOS and not uEFI you smartass tard.

You can, however, solder battery sockets then insert batteries into them.

>niggers don't own soldering irons.

But they can steal them.