Help with a craped out LapTop
Hello all,
I Have in my possession an 1100$ Paperweight.
My compaq laptop SOMEHOW managed to change its BIOS password all by itsself. I know this because it has been sitting in my living room for the past 3 months doing the same thing it has always done... sit there and let me surf the net while i am watching TV. I am SURE that noone has gotten on it and manualy changed the password. So some how it erased my old bios password, and changed it to a new one... HOW IN THE HECK CAN THIS HAPPEN? From the last time I was able to boot it until the password change NO ONE has had access to it but me, so I am sure this is not a prank done by another human being.
I need some serious help here people PLZ! Can anyone tell me how to fix this, and BTW the screws to open the lap tops case are a special 7 sided star shape... BAH!!! I HATE COMPAQ...
ok i feel better now im sorry.
pretty sure it is a virus
Thanx for the tip pure ex, but I tried all the default passwords listed FOR every type of bios I could google for and NONE of them worked. This includes award, ami, and various other.
I KNOW you cannot get a bios virus but from my 13 years of dealing with computer hardware, I have never once had a bios password change itself. They have reset to nothing from a faulty battery but never changed all by themself. Seeing as no other human could have had contact with this computer besides me I can see no other option. My laptop did have the Kazaa trojon/back door, whatever you want to call that P2P program and that IMHO is a very good clue as to where a "bios virus" could come from.
Now
I know you can update bios with a floppy disk...
I Know viruses can come through floppy disks...
So why can a virus not infect bios...
Common sense tells me that if I can do it to my computer, then someone else can do it with a program/batch file. Meaning if i can run a program from a floppy disk that will patch my BIOS
then why can a virus not do the same thing. Only diffrence is the virus patches bios with a new password. Can anyone tell me with a straight face why this cannot happen?
And if you can i would like you to explain to me WHY?