BIOS hacked - Cure?
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I have an old (OLD!) laptop that's been thoroughly taken over.
My BIOS PW still works, but the BIOS itself is mangled. The boot order cannot be changed. And I can get a boot menu on screen (which won't allow USB) but which gets ignored and the HDD boots anyway. So I'm having trouble flashing the BIOS, and I doubt it would work anyway.
I took out the CMOS battery in the hope that it will reset the BIOS to factory settings. I assume the BIOS PW is not saved in the BIOS RAM for theft protection. So a corruption of the BIOS wouldn't affect the PW (still works, the hack didn't affect the PW).
Is this likely? Is there anything else I can try? Do I have this all wrong?
inb4 stolen hardware. It's a Fujitsu over ten years old, no one steals those. And I have the Password.
>>51320116
Try to find a copy of the bios to reflash. If you cant you are probably SOL
>>51320736
I have the BIOS, but I need to be able to boot from optical or stick to flash it.
>>51320838
Try unplugging the hdd,it may boot from cd then
I find this really interesting. Give me a few minutes to google it
>>51320851
I will once I have it reassembled.
Remove that battery
>>51320890
Looks like >>51320851 the best option. Should work. Before you do that, make sure after you unplug the CMOS battery you leave it unplugged for a couple of minutes. Also, when you turn the power off, disconnect the power supply to the Motherboard and press the power button again to make sure its completely discharged.
>>51320963
I will leave it over night. I have heard of capacitors... And reassembling it will be a bitch of an hour, there's foil connectors, angled screws, and of course I had to remove the back, screen, keyboard, anything but the heatpipe, to even get to the battery.
So, tomorrow I'll know more.
>>51321009
Excellent. Let us know what happens OP
>>51321188
Not sure how fast /g/ moves, but I will if this is still here.
