I am not sure of the BIOS Administrator password on my HP Zbook 17, When I press Esc after a reboot and Enter into BIOS Setup mode, it is asking for Administrator password which I have forgotten. Product Name: HP Zbook 17. SKU Number: D5D93AV . After 3 attempts, it come to a new screen with the following "On-Screen Keyboard" The first thing you need to do is to update the BIOS to the latest version to override the password. Here are the steps for the same. Step 1: Firstly, you need to check the BIOS version on your system. To do this, turn on your system and select the Start menu. Type "msinfo032" in the search box and hit on "Enter". Press Enter. Proceed to log on with your regular account (not administrator). However, when asked for the administrator's password to install software/games or change options or settings, type in the password you set in the CMD (Command Prompt). 8. Enjoy the new administrative privileges. 1. Boot the system, and then press f10 to enter the BIOS setup. 2. Select Change Password from the Security menu and follow prompts to change to a new password. NOTE: For maximum system protection, strong BIOS administrator and BIOS user passwords must be selected, and the BIOS administrator password must be different from the user password. Clicked on reset administrator password. I've put the old password and nothing on the new password and confirmation. Save. Expected behaviour: At startup the system no longer prompts for password. Actual behaviour: I'm still prompted for a password before windows boot, I tried the old password and pressing enter with no password at all. We set a bios password though so she's called me up for the bios password. I connected remotely to the laptop and where the dialogue box prompting for the bios password (prior to updating the bios) was i entered in the bios password. I've had this on a number of occasions where the bios password doesn't work in Windows yet when you reboot the Set policy in a group (Old password Fireport, new password Wyse#123. Set Admin setup to lockout. Moved device into group. Rebooted. F12 to access BIOS. Entered Wyse#123 to unlock. Ran a Sync BIOS Password job to get the current password for the device into DB (Fireport)ort) Rotoi1. OP •. Boot the other computer into a USB dos boot disk. Then do format H: /s (Where H is the drive letter of the laptop hard drive). The /s means system. Then plug your laptop's hard drive back into your laptop or in place of the current hard drive in your laptop. See if it boots to a DOS prompt. If it does then great. Press Start, type cmd, then right-click on the best-matched result and select Run as administrator. Then type the following command to get a list of all the users on this computer: net user. Hit Enter. Then find your administrator account in the list. Now type the following command: net user "Username" password. FMVUZP.

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