Hi guys, don’t know if this is the proper category…
Following problem: when I installed Linux on my wife’s new ASUS Zenbook UX3402-VA half a year ago I set an Admin(!) password on BIOS/UEFI to prevent her to accidentally change sth. I usually have only 2 default passwords for things like this. But somehow none of them works. Even iterations, other passwords, typo variants don’t work.
Google results tell you to remove the password from within BIOS (LOL - how to do this when you can’t get in?) or with the usage of Alt-r when prompted for password to recover password with a code. But Alt-r only gives an “r” in password field.
So no luck within the last days neither with guessed paswords nor with google…
Question: is there a Linux tool to read or reset current password from running Linux?
Remove the cmos battery from the motherboard and press the power button while your system is unplugged for about 30 seconds, then put the cmos battery back in and power up your system and you should be able to access to bios/uefi without password.
That won’t work on anything from last 10 years a lot of newer notebooks don’t even have cmos battery. Only way I know of is either reprograming bios chip with something like ch341a (if it is even possible on this model depending on chip and bios security) or if there is some in bios pass recovery (where it shows QR code or some random code that you show to support or someone from asus)
Thanks @Stefax2001 - then I’ll contact ASUS support. I did not expect that it would be so easy nowadays. Last time I did some “hacker stuff” was with a 2nd hand Thinkpad x270 where I had to short-circuit two pins on a chip under the keyboard while turning it on…
