HP Elitebook 8540w: bios administrator password

I have a HP elitebook 8540w, iI forgot the BIOS administrator password, after three tries, I got the message: failure of authentication system locked, press the power button to restart the system. I need to install Windows 8 but not posible to boot from the CD-ROM.

Hello

Unfortunately, business machines such as Probooks or EliteBook have more strict security consumption patterns - they do not produce "stop codes", the password cannot be derived from the serial number and the code is stored in a nonvolatile memory to remove the RTC cell does not reset the password in this case.

If you contact HP Business support, they may be able to file a custom SMC.bin that you can use to reset the password at startup.

Kind regards

DP - K

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