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Clearing Password Check and BIOS Recovery
This section provide you the standard operating procedures of clearing password and BIOS recovery for
Packard Bell EasyNote LJ75/LJ77. Packard Bell EasyNote LJ75/LJ77 provides one Hardware Open Gap on
main board for clearing password check, and one Hotkey for enabling BIOS Recovery.
Clearing Password Check
Hardware Open Gap Description is as follows:
Steps for Clearing BIOS Password Check
If users set BIOS Password (Supervisor Password and/or User Password) for a security reason, BIOS will ask
the password during systems POST or when systems enter to BIOS Setup menu. However, once it is
necessary to bypass the password check, users need to short the HW Gap to clear the password by the
following steps:
1. Power Off the system, and remove HDD, AC and Battery from the machine.
2. Open the back cover of the machine.
3. Disconnect the RTC Battery cable and locate the G1 jumper.
Item Mark Description Location
R588 RTC_RST Clear CMOS Jumper Memory bay (near DDR socket)
R589 ME_RST