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Power On password and BIOS reset?
Hi,
I recently saw on the BIOS of my motherboard that I can set up a "User password": it is as a Power on password. So when my PC boots, the first thing I see even before seeing the usual screen with basic info (cpu model, amount of RAM, BIOS version etc ...), is a black screen with a password prompt. Pretty cool: as I'm the only user of the PC, there's even no need to set up a password for my Windows session anymore, as you have to know the User password first.
The question I have is: what if someone physically open my PC case, pulls out the motherboard's battery, waits few seconds and replace the battery? The BIOS settings will be reset to their factory defaults right? What about my User password then? Is it erased as well or not?
I don't want to try it myself as I dont' want to loose the settings I've changed in the BIOS already.
Thank you for the help,