but there are also hardware options that involve removing and reseating the CMOS battery or moving around a jumper on the motherboard. Let's take a step-by-step look at each of the three different ...

As a side note, you can use this to your advantage as well. If you somehow forget your BIOS password, just remove your CMOS battery, wait for a bit (10–15 minutes), reinsert it and your password ...