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I have an old Lenovo Ideapad S10e that a friend has given me. I need to be able to change settings such as the boot order in the BIOS setup, but I can not because there is a supervisor password. My friend does not remember the supervisor password. I can only access some BIOS settings with the user password. It has a Phoenix BIOS. No hard disk password or anything is set, only the supervisor password. I have done a lot of Googling and found a few methods, but I am unsure of which is correct because I can not find anything specific for this netbook:
- Remove CMOS battery for a few minutes
- Short pins on the CMOS or EEPROM
- Use an EEPROM reader to get the password
Does this netbook store the password in the EEPROM? If so, how do I reset it? Or can it be reset just simply by taking out the CMOS battery?
EDIT: I just found this. Would that work?