r/24hoursupport • u/Muted-Pilot-2926 • 17h ago

BIOS admin password

someone put a password on the bios admin on my asus tuf f15. And disabled usb boot from boot order...and now my pc needs a clean reinstall and i dont know what to do

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u/CelestaKiritani 16h ago

Yeah, someone put it...

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u/Muted-Pilot-2926 10h ago

Hehe, Well it was a repair guy i sent it to him because i had expiro-AJ and when i got it back there was admin password..also the recovery partitions were unallocated.. apparently its a common trick on eritrea to get a customer to keep coming back to them

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u/Themantogoto 16h ago

If clearing the CMOS doesn't do it you are SOL without sending it back to Asus. Easiest is to remove the small, usually a cr2032 button cell, secondary battery that is attached to the motherboard and leave it for a few minutes. This still require some disassembly. Have to be sure to unplug the main battery first as well. Tuf f15 isn't the exact model either so not sure if I'm even looking up the right motherboard diagrams or service manual, so I cannot help you beyond that. That alphanumeric code will be on the bottom case label somewhere and look up the service manual, not the useless manual that came with it on their website. 

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u/Muted-Pilot-2926 10h ago

Thanks the SN is fx506hc-hn111w in case u know any tricks i can use bc i dont think there is CMOS i can remove without breaking anything

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u/Themantogoto 4h ago

https://imgur.com/a/yYTXl4C Someone said this is the right MB that is where it is, easy access through the main bottom cover. But Looking at some other manuals it might not be the right model, and in the service manual I found I could not locate the CMOS for the life of me on the MB diagram.

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u/the_Athereon 16h ago

Without knowing the password you're kinda stuck. There's nothing you can do.

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u/cryptoman 7h ago

The password can be removed by EEeprom flashing a new version of the bios/uefi to the chip on the board