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  • Reset the BIOS on a HP Pavilion DV 6000

    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...

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  • Delay boot time on a VMware virtual machine

    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,...

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