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Re:Defeating a Laptop's BIOS Password by shakna on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @10:33AM (#22413933)
> It's also unusual that discharging the CMOS removed the boot password. It shouldn't do that.

That's actually the official way to reset the password for a number of systems. [0][1][2]

[0] https://www.dell.com/support/article/au/en/aubsd1/sln170684/...

[1] https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkStation-Workstations/How-d...

[2] https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Desktop-Boot-and-Lockup/how-to...

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