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07-10-2017 04:32 AM
Hello!
I recently bought an Elitebook 9470m of Ebay. What wasn't included in the description was that the bios is protected by a password. I contaced the seller, but he didn't know anything about it, or could contact the company he bought it from.
I have read alot of posts on forums and other places, that HP can provide a smc.bin file that clear bios password (if provied serial nr, and other relevant info).
So I did contact hp support, and they told me that they can't make such file for my laptop (he did say it was to old or something) but i can try to remove the cmos battery, which of course don't help my case.
Im very curious how he thought that would work, since he's an HP agent.
However, i felt that he was lying about they cannot make an smc.bin for my laptop. Have someone here cleared bios password on an Elitebook 9470m?
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07-12-2017 02:07 AM
If someone else has this trouble, heres some info.
Got contaced by hp support. They can make a bios password reset file, but since the laptop is out of warranty, it would be very costly (more than the value of the laptop). Otherwise my issue would have been solved.
07-10-2017 07:17 AM
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07-12-2017 02:07 AM
If someone else has this trouble, heres some info.
Got contaced by hp support. They can make a bios password reset file, but since the laptop is out of warranty, it would be very costly (more than the value of the laptop). Otherwise my issue would have been solved.
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