Gateway Laptop BIOS Locked

aimpulsive · Sep-25-2008

I have a gateway MX6433 running XP. I had a password on the BIOS and then decided to remove it.

I entered the OLD password but left the new one blank and hit SAVE.

Now it won't let me log in when booting as it thinks there is a blank password but it won't let me enter blanks, spaces, or "empty" as my password.

Gateway is saying I need to "recover" (which is their word for wipe out) the hard drive, which means losing everything on it.

I tried UNLOCK6 (which works on HP) but it did not provide a usable password.

After trying 3 unsuccessful times to log in it says "SYSTEM DISABLED [00000]".

Can anyone help??

Oh, I also tried removing the battery and power cord and pressing the power button 20 times (recommended by Gateway support), but that did nothing.

Thanks!

Alan · Sep-27-2008

You need to dig out your mobo manual and locate the password reset jumpers (If your board has them). Have a look at this, it may help.