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I bought this laptop 4 years ago and only got to use it for 6 months because I set a bios password and cant remember the password for the life of me. I’ve tried everything. I even contacted MSI to ask for help. The C-Mos battery has been out for over 2 years now. PLEASE help me get this beast up and running again! Thanks!
You will need a programmer to remove the password from the bios chip. The easiest way for you would be to purchase a pre-programmed bios chip. You can purchase them for around $20 but you will need some soldering experience to replace it.
John, I’m confused are you trying to get into the BIOS or boot from a different drive. If it’s the boot options you need, F11 will do that. Obviously DEL is the BIOS startup key for this machine. If the CMOS is still not clearing, there should be a CMOS clear jumper (or pins you have to short out yourself). I wonder if @jayeff can help here.
