Get around a motherboard password

almoststew1990

almoststew1990

almoststew1990

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I bought a motherboard from a reseller on eBay. They are unlikely to know the password as they won't have been the original/ previous owner.

The board has a password. It's not 0000 or nothing or 1234. I can't access the BIOS without the password.

I've tried clearing the CMOS on the jumpers on the board and also replaced the CMOS battery / left it without the battery for a bit.

Are there any other ways to overcome it? It's a gigabyte H81M-DS2V. It has the dual bios thing does anyone know how I force the back-up bios to load or anything?

If not I'll be refunding the board but I would like it to work without needing to do that ideally :(

Edit so it doesn't have the back-up bios annoyingly
 
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almoststew1990 said:
I've tried clearing the CMOS on the jumpers on the board and also replaced the CMOS battery / left it without the battery for a bit.
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That should have worked, ensuring that power been removed first, try turning the pc on to remove any power still in the board and then using clear cmos jumper for a few seconds.
 
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