Is this the right page for BIOS reset?

[lizziebaby]

Somebody pleeeaaasssee help me. I have passwords on BIOS, com & admin on a tower i recently got given. I have removed the battery, and switched the jumpers. But no matter what I do it makes no difference. I have a DELL Optiplex GX 260.  This is soooo fustrating

[Salmon Trout]

How come you are not in possession of the passwords? Can't you ask the previous owner for them?

[foxidrive]

In a normal desktop, back in the bad old days, we use a qbasic script to change a byte in the cmos and that forced a cmos reset.

You'll need qbasic.exe from a MSDOS OS or the Win9x cdroms have it too.
I'm sure the same thing can be done in VBS.

Mind you, it is untested on a modern machine and if anything breaks then I can't help you. 

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@echo off
echo kill "temp.bas">temp.bas
echo out &h70, &h2e >>temp.bas
echo out &h71, &h00 >>temp.bas
echo out &h70, &h2f >>temp.bas
echo out &h71, &h00 >>temp.bas
echo ? "Done"       >>temp.bas
echo ? "now reboot" >>temp.bas
echo system         >>temp.bas
qbasic /run temp.bas