Also you can try with Cmos password recovery tools 4.6: CmosPwd decrypts password stored in cmos used to access BIOS SETUP. Works with the following BIOSes: - ACER/IBM BIOS - AMI BIOS - AMI WinBIOS 2.5 - Award 4.5x/4.6x/6.0 - Compaq (1992) - Compaq (New version) - IBM (PS/2, Activa, Thinkpad) - Packard Bell - Phoenix 1.00.09.AC0 (1994), a486 1.03, 1.04, 1.10 A03, 4.05 rev 1.02.943, 4.06 rev 1.13.1107 - Phoenix 4 release 6 (User) - Gateway Solo - Phoenix 4.0 release 6 - Toshiba - Zenith AMI With CmosPwd, you can backup, restore and kill cmos NB: AWARD 4.50 have a backdoor, a generic password : AWARD_SW (d8on for one of the short version) SOYO motherboard have "SY_MB" as master password for Award 4.51. CmosPwd give equivalent passwords for Award BIOS, not original one. http://www.cgsecurity.org/cmospwd.html