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ELITEBOOK 8440P
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Hai,

  I am reseller. I purchased refurbished laptop hp ELITEBOOK 8440p from my vendor to resale. Everything is working fine but customer required win 10 in the laptop. So i tried to install win 10 os but the bios is locked. It showing enter bios administrator password. Kindly help to reslove the issue.

 

Cmos remove, battery remove, flashing methods dont recommend me.

 

 

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Hi there! Thank you for visiting the HP Support Community! 🙂  

 

According to the Community's Rules of Participation:  

 

4d. No posts shall include instructions or directions intended to bypass or subvert security measures, including passwords, locking mechanisms, fingerprint scans, etc., or to bypass any safety measures.  

 

Therefore, this topic is being locked. If you would like help resetting the password on your product, please Contact HP support in your region.  

 

Kind regards,  

 

BiancaS.

I work on behalf of HP.
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