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Someone came to me with a laptop that wouldnt boot because of a boot password, i managed to get into the bios by doing a resetting the cmos (holding the power button for 30 seconds with no ac adapter) i got into the bios and disabled the password and then saved the changes exited it rebooted but it comes up with post screen which is a packard bell logo and says f2 for bios and f8 for boot menu. if i press them it will attempt to load but then instantly cut out. i tried the cmos reset and it comes up with a dos screen saying press f2 for bios or f1 to continue the boot. if i press either of these it instantly cuts out.

can anyone help me?

Hmm, I wonder if you knocked the HardDrive cable out or something (like Ram cards)

Also here's a couple of master passwords for that computer: fi9h2up or hlypo33
That someone posted once

the password isnt the problem now.

the problem is it keeps cutting out

Yes I know, I was trying to be nice, oh well.

Anyway I've addressed that issue, no reply on that yet!