Bios Preventing Reset

[hawier]

I've been trying to reset my PC for a while now. I've been experiencing pretty bad stutter and I wanted to try resetting my PC to fix it. However, BIOS is preventing me from completing the reset because every time I try to reset, the computer will restart and ask me for a BIOS password. The whole BIOS password thing has been an issue for a while now, but I ignored it because I could just enter the password wrong 3 times and still boot into windows. However, now that I'm trying to reset my PC, it's become a huge issue. I remember the whole BIOS password query started a while ago when something in my System Firmware was bugging out, it kept wanting me to restart my PC and enter a BIOS password. Eventually I just disabled system firmware and moved. I would really appreciate any help getting past this BIOS just so I can reset my PC, thank you.

[praveen196]

@ hawier Welcome to the HP Community 🙂  

You would have to contact HP for a hardware service as the motherboard may require a Bios Flash.  
 

Any other way of unlocking the BIOS is not authorized by HP.  
 

HP Technical Support can be reached by clicking on the following link: http://h22207.www2.hp.com/us-en/?openCLC=true 

(1) Once the support page opens please select the country in which you're located. Next, enter your HP model number on the right. 

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(3) Once completed click the 'Show Options' icon on the bottom right. 

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