Usually, when you plug some RAM and a charger into a board, then press the power button, your board should boot up and eventually show the BIOS on the screen. However, there will be some caveats – ...

When you disconnect your computer’s power supply from the wall, it jumps in to save your BIOS or UEFI settings in your motherboard’s CMOS-RAM (Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor). But even the ...

If you've locked yourself out of your Compaq Presario by an unknown CMOS password, you can reset the password -- along with all other CMOS settings -- by removing the computer's backup battery for ...

The BIOS password is stored in a non-volatile memory, which can be cleared. Doing so clears the password too, allowing you to reset it. Here are several methods that you can use to recover your BIOS ...