Phoenix Bios 4.0 - Blank password will not work

I went into the bios on a brand new laptop and put in a password. Then
I decided to change the password to nothing (I thought) I hit enter
when it asked for the new password as well as an enter at the
confirmation.
When the laptop rebooted it would not take the old or new password.

It is a brand new gateway laptop Model 6018 GZ.
Phoenix NoteBIOS 4.0
I cannot find any reference material to a location of the CMOS Battery
and Gateway says I should send it in- of course I don't have time for
this.

If anyone has any ideas I would be more than happy to try anything.

TIA

EpiE

 

From the page below, try the backdoor password which is "phoenix" without
the "" and its case sensitive.
It may or may not work, i am not promising anything
http://www.pwcrack.com/bios.shtml

 

another site with a load of bios overrides is
http://labmice.techtarget.com/articles/BIOS_hack.htm

 

wrote:

|>I went into the bios on a brand new laptop and put in a password. Then
|>I decided to change the password to nothing (I thought) I hit enter
|>when it asked for the new password as well as an enter at the
|>confirmation.
|>When the laptop rebooted it would not take the old or new password.
|>
|>It is a brand new gateway laptop Model 6018 GZ.
|>Phoenix NoteBIOS 4.0
|>I cannot find any reference material to a location of the CMOS Battery
|>and Gateway says I should send it in- of course I don't have time for
|>this.
|>
|>If anyone has any ideas I would be more than happy to try anything.

Anything.. like maybe jumpering it, if so here's yet another bios
bypass page. http://www.elfqrin.com/docs/biospw.html