Problem navigating in the BIOS

[Keith]

The problem started when I entered a user password. Now when I press
delete to enter setup it brings me to the CMOS setup utility where I first
have to enter my password, then password entered it goes directly to the
"user password" section in the CMOS setup utility. Ever since then I can not
toggle left or right at the CMOS setup utility. I can toggle up & down to
"save & exit setup" and "exit without saving" along with going back to "user
password". I'm having a problem with my Seagate hard drive. I posted this
problem before and was told to get the program that checks to see if your
hard drive is ok, which I did. The problem there is the program does not
recognize that I have a hard drive, so I was going into the bios to see if I
could get it to auto detect it. I tried to get it to do it once before with
no luck. So basically what I need help with is:
1) How can I get to navigate the CMOS setup utility?
2)How do I get my hard drive into the BIOS if it does not auto detect it?
3) How can I delete the user password so I don't have to use it anymore?
I realize this is quite a bit for one post so if I need to separate them
please let me know. You guys have been a great help in the past and your
expertise is greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance as always. Keith

[modelingfrog]

Since you never mentioned what motherboard you have or your bios version
there is not much I can help you with. My suggestions is that you contact
your MoBo's manufacturer, or visit their site for details, you may want to
clear cmos, with the use of jumpers, but like I said contact the
manufacturer and you are sure to get the needed help.

good luck


"Keith" > wrote in message
...
> The problem started when I entered a user password. Now when I press
> delete to enter setup it brings me to the CMOS setup utility where I first
> have to enter my password, then password entered it goes directly to the
> "user password" section in the CMOS setup utility. Ever since then I can
not
> toggle left or right at the CMOS setup utility. I can toggle up & down to
> "save & exit setup" and "exit without saving" along with going back to
"user
> password". I'm having a problem with my Seagate hard drive. I posted
this
> problem before and was told to get the program that checks to see if your
> hard drive is ok, which I did. The problem there is the program does not
> recognize that I have a hard drive, so I was going into the bios to see if
I
> could get it to auto detect it. I tried to get it to do it once before
with
> no luck. So basically what I need help with is:
> 1) How can I get to navigate the CMOS setup utility?
> 2)How do I get my hard drive into the BIOS if it does not auto detect it?
> 3) How can I delete the user password so I don't have to use it anymore?
> I realize this is quite a bit for one post so if I need to separate them
> please let me know. You guys have been a great help in the past and your
> expertise is greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance as always. Keith
>
>

[PCR]

Below are site I have collected here, re: BIOS. If you reset BIOS, that
will certainly remove the password. However, if you need to have other
than "Default" settings in there, you must remember what those were.

http://sysopt.earthweb.com/biosbmc.html BIOS beeps
http://www.amptron.com/html/bios.beepcodes.html
http://www.comptechdoc.org/hardware/beepcodes/1.htm
http://www.computerhope.com/beep.htm
http://www.tcwo.com/support/new/beeps.htm BIOS beeps
http://www.bioscentral.com/ BIOS Central
http://www.extremetech.com/article/0,2299,s%3D1005%26a%3D1614,00.asp
BIOS Info
http://www.itcp.net/~awsh/ BIOS & hardware Optimization Guide
ftp://ftp.heise.de/pub/ct/ctsi/ctbios15.zip ctbios Identify BIOS
http://www.cgsecurity.org/ BIOS manipulator, Password recoverer


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There may be humor in this post, and,
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"Keith" > wrote in message
...
| The problem started when I entered a user password. Now when I press
| delete to enter setup it brings me to the CMOS setup utility where I
first
| have to enter my password, then password entered it goes directly to
the
| "user password" section in the CMOS setup utility. Ever since then I
can not
| toggle left or right at the CMOS setup utility. I can toggle up &
down to
| "save & exit setup" and "exit without saving" along with going back to
"user
| password". I'm having a problem with my Seagate hard drive. I posted
this
| problem before and was told to get the program that checks to see if
your
| hard drive is ok, which I did. The problem there is the program does
not
| recognize that I have a hard drive, so I was going into the bios to
see if I
| could get it to auto detect it. I tried to get it to do it once
before with
| no luck. So basically what I need help with is:
| 1) How can I get to navigate the CMOS setup utility?
| 2)How do I get my hard drive into the BIOS if it does not auto detect
it?
| 3) How can I delete the user password so I don't have to use it
anymore?
| I realize this is quite a bit for one post so if I need to separate
them
| please let me know. You guys have been a great help in the past and
your
| expertise is greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance as always.
Keith
|
|

[PCR]

Well... you haven't quite stated the BIOS will not auto-detect the HDD,
but only that the utility doesn't see it. Did you get the right one?
When you boot a Startup Diskette, does it see the HDD?

Get a Startup Diskette from
http://www.bootdisk.com/ , if you don't already have one from "Control
Panel, Add/Remove Programs, Startup Disk tab". Test the Startup
Diskette. Boot it, put in a CD and "DIR" the CD. It will say which
letter is the CD. (Otherwise, it is likely one letter higher than
normal.)

........Start of..... URLs of Glee..........
Download the diagnostics for your brand hard drive.

If you do not know the brand, download Seagate SeaTools. After it is
downloaded, double-click it, and it will create a bootable floppy disk
with the diagnostic program on it. Then boot your problem computer
using the bootable floppy, and choose the Generic long test. It will
create a report that you can read from within the program when the tests
are complete, and it is also saved as a text file on the floppy disk.

Alternately, you can use the evaluation version of Ontrack Data Advisor,
which is the same program in its original version. They both are
created the same way.

Seagate SeaTools:
http://download.microshopper.com/hardware/disks/seagate/seatoold.exe
or
http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/B7a.html

Error codes:
http://www.seagate.com/support/npf/seatools/st_error_index.html

Data Advisor:
http://www.ontrack.com/freesoftware/#dataadvisor
The download link has not been working recently...if it does not
connect, use Seagate SeaTools instead.

Installation instructions for both:
http://www.ontrack.com/dataadvisor/downloadinfo.asp

If you DO know the brand, find the diagnostics here:

Fujitsu
http://www.fcpa.fujitsu.com/download/hard-drives/#diagnostic

IBM and Hitachi
http://www.hgst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#DFT

Maxtor
http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/products/index.htm

Seagate
http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/index.html

Western Digital
http://support.wdc.com/download/
or
www.westerndigital.com
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http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

....glen
--
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............End......of quote.........


--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

"Keith" > wrote in message
...
| The problem started when I entered a user password. Now when I press
| delete to enter setup it brings me to the CMOS setup utility where I
first
| have to enter my password, then password entered it goes directly to
the
| "user password" section in the CMOS setup utility. Ever since then I
can not
| toggle left or right at the CMOS setup utility. I can toggle up &
down to
| "save & exit setup" and "exit without saving" along with going back to
"user
| password". I'm having a problem with my Seagate hard drive. I posted
this
| problem before and was told to get the program that checks to see if
your
| hard drive is ok, which I did. The problem there is the program does
not
| recognize that I have a hard drive, so I was going into the bios to
see if I
| could get it to auto detect it. I tried to get it to do it once
before with
| no luck. So basically what I need help with is:
| 1) How can I get to navigate the CMOS setup utility?
| 2)How do I get my hard drive into the BIOS if it does not auto detect
it?
| 3) How can I delete the user password so I don't have to use it
anymore?
| I realize this is quite a bit for one post so if I need to separate
them
| please let me know. You guys have been a great help in the past and
your
| expertise is greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance as always.
Keith
|
|