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November 6th, 2025 05:26

Forgot bios password

So I purchased my desktop some 5 yrs ago and at some point lost interest in the business I had so I shelved the computer. Then a friend of mine needed a hard drive for a computer he had and I had several computers in my room and when he asked me I didn't think of it and I told him that he could get whatever one he wanted well he took the one out of this computer my optiplex and so I go to go to set up the computer use it and there's no hard drive so I install another hard drive thinking no big deal and guess what there's a FiOS password needed for it to even set up and I don't remember what it what it is so what do I do

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November 6th, 2025 13:43

Try clear password jumper on the motherboard 

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November 10th, 2025 22:27

@redxps630​ I tried this with the instruction on Dell's website with no luck. 

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November 11th, 2025 22:16

Is the password in question a hard drive password?   If so, it's stored both in setup (CMOS) and on the drive -- the former should be clearable with the reset jumper.  The latter can't be cleared by the user unless they have access to low level drive tools like PC3000.

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