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Reset the BIOS on a HP Pavilion DV 6000
Resetting the BIOS password is not a trivial task since all you have to do is disconnect the real-time clock battery aka RTC for a few minutes and wait. This tutorial is specific to the HP Pavilion DV 6000 however the same concept applies to other laptops. In my case...
Read More Delay boot time on a VMware virtual machine
Somewhere in a dark corner at VMware HQ somebody had the great idea of setting the BIOS to display for less than two seconds on a virtual machine, which makes it almost impossible to hit the F2 key needed to access the BIOS menu. Fortunately, there is a simple...
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