BIOS password I have acquired a used HP Pavilion ze2000 PC Notebook that unfortunately has a BIOS password on it. I'm noticing that HPs don't seem to have default BIOS passwords. Any way that I can reset it, or are there default passwords that anyone knows of?

Try asking your question here:
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Recovery/BIOS-Password-Reset/td-p/1231497

The folks there seem to have helped a lot of people with this problem.

Hi,

Try loading to safe mode by pressing F8 right after you press the power button to turn on the machine and see if the admin account is available, if not most likely you have to reinstall the Operating System.

AnEspera

According to the hardware specifications for the HP Pavilion ZE2000, found on PCWorld.com, it does have built-in 802.11g wireless. You can look at the specification list here (look under the "Communications" area).

There's four ways to reset the BIOS password that you can read about on this link.

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Try this links:
Troubleshooting No LED Lights Glow During Startup or Boot HP Notebook PCs - Troubleshooting Blink Codes or Beep Codes that may Occur During Startup or Boot , or BIOS Beep Codes - For Hp and Compaq Desktop Computers (United States - English) Troubleshooting Black Screen with no Error Messages that may Occur During Startup or Boot HP Notebook PCs - Troubleshooting Black Screen Error Messages that May Display During Startup or Boot HP Notebook PCs - Troubleshooting Blue Screen Error Messages that May Display During Startup or Boot HP Notebook PCs - Troubleshooting Windows Logo Screen Error Messages that May Display During Startup or Boot Using HP Support Tools to Update HP Software, Drivers, and BIOS with Windows 7 . Using HP Update Tools to Update HP Software, Drivers, and BIOS with Vista Updating the BIOS or ROM for Notebooks Running Windows XP Updating Drivers and Software with Windows Update

Open the case of the laptop and remove the system battery for about 30 seconds and replace. That will reset the bios password.

This Link
seems to provide the best thorough approach to getting those drivers installed & working.

However, someone claims, on this forum page(last post on the page) that all you need to do is use the "windows online driver search" function, and it will handle all of the messy work of locating, downloading & installing.

I hope that helps.

Ok ive found out,there are two ways 2 do it 1u just need to take out the battery, and Press the on/off button for 5seconds, the 2nd is more drastic u need to dissasemble all parts and take off the small battery(its even in PCs) and hold iit for ten minutes, then its going to be ok (ive did the second way, because the first way works only on some notebooks)
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BIOS passwords can be reset in two ways,
1. using software 2. using hardware.

I would first try resetting using software, here are two software's to reset or retieive BIOS passwords.

!BIOS - is a PC BIOS toolkit offering password removal/decrypt and BIOS settings modification/backup/restore.

CmosPwd - Cmos password recovery tools 4.8

Please let us know if it works.

BIOS passwords can be reset in two ways,
1. using software 2. using hardware.

I would first try resetting using software, here are two software's to reset or retieive BIOS passwords.

!BIOS - is a PC BIOS toolkit offering password removal/decrypt and BIOS settings modification/backup/restore.

CmosPwd - Cmos password recovery tools 4.8

Please let us know if it works.

Boot into bios, setup to start on a cd.
Burn from another machine first:
a WinPe, BartPe, Ubuntu, Knoppix, etc. Bootable CD.
Boot with any of these and see what happened to your files.

You never even stated what OS you had.

Sounds 2 hot.