EMachine bought second-hand with BIOS locked store

Separated from this thread.

I just want to be honest and totally from the outset: I am disabled, poor therefor and with very limited income. for example, the death of my last pc I kept the hard drive that was an original version of XP 3. I was so lucky (I HOPE) because I found at a local second hand store they had a whole collection of different components for EMachines model W653a S/No. GCJ87 C00 07034

SNIDS: 82800679890 with Celeron dual-core inside and Vista already installed. Well 1 problem was obviously it has not been saved for me and I have been able to use it as a "guest." UNSATISFACTORY! In addition, simply not true, I felt the guilt of an intruder. my previous PC was a (EMachine) model: W4685 w/a Pentium4 2.60 GHz cpu.

The disk that came bundle w / that has some additional software that were not only temporary features. Of course, he had his share of temp-ware as well, but point is when I tried an installation clean w/a drive of SPX "home" that I had previously bought so I was ready when I got the machine I wanted.

so, okay Oh great and merciful Microsoft, this is my confession.

Now, what I have to do to crush the Vista installed on this machine still running sweet ' cept I can' no. do everything I want to since the previous owner has left the password of the bios! I'll be able to scrape Vista and claim ownership of this ' China since I paid for it loyally AND freshly install instead a Win7 OS?

Thank you, altogether!                                                  M_EagletonMize

We are not able to help to circumvent passwords that we do not know which PC it is.

A BIOS password is also often used by business to protect the property against the better flight just a Windows password can make.

But you will not be able to reinstall Vista or Clean install another OS to boot with a BIOS password, nor can you start the XP SP3 CD to do an XP Repair Installation that is how to adjust a registered old XP install to start on new hardware.

I guess you are using the guest account because you have no administrator rights because the Admin account is protected too? If this is not you could create a new account and assign administrator rights in user accounts.

Maybe better if you can't find it via Google how remove it eMachine BIOS password must follow these same steps to clean you have to make it work better: Clean Up Factory Bloatware

Vista is possible to smoothly because the improvements developed for Windows 7 have been incorporated into SP2.

If I misunderstood the facts of the case, please specify if I can see if there is more help that can be given.  Rules of the forum banning however help to circumvent passwords.  Am I correct that you have a BIOS and Windows password for the Admin account?  If not the last there is more, we can do to help you short of media to reinstall the boot.

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