You work for a small city IT department and one of your cowo

You work for a small city IT department, and one of your coworkers has forgotten the administrator password to the BIOS of a server and now can’t gain access to the BIOS settings or boot the server. What options do you have that could fix this problem? (Choose three.)

A. Use the user password if it provides access to the BIOS and will boot the server.

B. Try the default BIOS password set by the motherboard maker.

C. Clear the CMOS memory to reset the password to the default or to clear the BIOS passwords.

D. Power down the server, remove all power connections to clear the BIOS memory, and then plug the server back in and power it up.

Solution

C. Clear the CMOS memory to reset the password to the default or to clear the BIOS passwords.

Remove the CMOS battery from its housing. Wait until all of the power stored in the capacitors on the motherboard can discharge. All of the BIOS settings will be reset the next time that you turn the computer on.