A friend of mine gave me a Advent Laptop he had a problem with. It was an ex shop display one that used to have shop software running. Anyway, when he brought it they unlocked it for him and removed anything of theirs. It has been running fine for months, then last week it just froze, so he switched it off.
Now when it starts it jumps up with 'Enter Password'
Now he has not set one anyway.
So the question is what is this password ? I am guessing it is a Power on Password or BIOS related anyway. Either way i can not get past it.
It will not let me into BIOS, so can not alter boot sequence to goto DVD first.
I have removed CMOS battery for 12 hours and its not helped.
There are no jumpers on the Motherboard, so thats not an option.

Any other ideas folks ?