THe BIOS is not stored on the hard drive it is a chip on the motherboard.
If you have set passwords inside the BIOS then there is no way to reset it although you could try a proper CMOS reset, just removing the battery doesn't completley reset it.
Switch off at wall and unplug
locate battery and remove
if you have jimpers by the battery set the jumper cap that is at 1 & 2 to 2 & 3 or CLR CMOS if you do not have jumpers short the two wires (CLR CMOS) with a screw driver or other metal implement
Press power button to remove any residule power
Put battery back in
If you had jumper caps move them back
switch on at wall
power up.
But like I said I doubt that will help.
If you have set passwords inside the BIOS then there is no way to reset it although you could try a proper CMOS reset, just removing the battery doesn't completley reset it.
Switch off at wall and unplug
locate battery and remove
if you have jimpers by the battery set the jumper cap that is at 1 & 2 to 2 & 3 or CLR CMOS if you do not have jumpers short the two wires (CLR CMOS) with a screw driver or other metal implement
Press power button to remove any residule power
Put battery back in
If you had jumper caps move them back
switch on at wall
power up.
But like I said I doubt that will help.
