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My BIOS is password-protected, so that I can't access the BIOS settings (I don't have problems with booting into Windows XP). The BIOS is made by American Megatrends (AMI). I've been trying some utilities to reset the BIOS from Windows, but I don't think that's possible (I don't want to mess up my computer and I find Command Prompt to be quite difficult to use). I've attempted to reset the CMOS through a hardware method, but I can't find a switch/plug/button to do so. The only place I haven't checked is under the RAM, because they're held quite firmly and I don't want to brake anything, since I'm not used to working with hardware componenets. So, is there any way for me to reset the BIOS? Thank you very much.

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On SOME computers (usually higher-end models) BIOS passwords are stored on chips designed to even meet Department of Defense standards (still not always perfect as this post will show, but hard enough to keep out most ordinary users), and are stored in secure chips. Although you may find a complicated hack on the Internet, requiring some electronic equipement and skill to execute (I will post an example below to show how much skill is involved, but it is not specific to your computer, and a link to free software for reading the chip), for the most part, this is beyond most people's capabilities...and that is a big 'IF'.

This issue is not solved by removing a battery or removing jumpers on the board.

For the most part, the solution ends up being replacing the motherboard, OR replacing the chip. I found a company on eBay that sells these chips (not too expensive at all), and they specialize in writing replacement chips, and could POSSIBLY send you a new chip, and instructions on how to replace it.

http://hdst1.heliohost.org/dl/ (free software to read the chip)

CmosPwd claims to support AMI BIOSes, perhaps you should give that a try. Or, of course, call the manufacturer.

The Ultimate Boot CD has some BIOS password cracking tools, although they are very unlikely to work - Laptop BIOSes don't all store the password in the same way, and they differ a lot more than their desktop counterparts.

If you do try the utilities on the UBCD, be very careful to follow the instructions, as some of them only apply to desktop BIOSes, and will permanently nuke your laptop BIOS.

Unfortunately there's not really many ways to get around a BIOS password - Especially one on a laptop =(

You should also ask Asus Tech Support, in case they have a tool for this kind of scenario.

The easiest thing you can do is to unplug the power and (normal) battery from the laptop.

Next, unplug the CMOS battery (usually located in a user replaceable area, but not always).

Wait a good few hours.

When you boot up, the majority of the time, all BIOS values should be reset.

This works on the majority of motherboards/laptops out there.

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Hi

I have the same error with my F5SL with core 2 duo, radeon HD 3400, 3GB ram, 256 GB IDE HDD, Win 7 HP

I already:

• expanded the system reserved partition to 450MB using minitool Partition wizzard.
• checked that there are no hardware issues and incompatibilities, pending updates, updated my ATI drivers to the newest ones
• checked if my hardware is supported by Win 10

When I install usual update with the reserve tool, I get to unpack and install files, but it gets reverted after reboot. Error code C1900101.

When I try update with Create Install Disk utility, I get that system thread exception not handled blue screen.

in both cases it boots back to windows 7 and deletes the update files.

I have impression that the update needs some boot setting to have the legacy boot enabled (bios not uefi)... would it be the case? also that this 8 years old laptop has an IDE drive.

Is there any way to trace/debug the process and check what actually caused the error?

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Hello,

I have got Asus X59SL and I am also getting system_thread_exception_not_handled.

Windows 7 x32 HP is working fine.

Core2Duo T5800

3GB RAM

HD3470 256MB

SATA HDD

I am betting on bad graphics driver or some boot flag.

Is it possible to enforce legacy boot with no graphics driver?

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Hi

i have also a Asus F5SL Laptop with following hardware

Intel Pentium CPU T2390

ATI HD3400

4GB RAM

250 GB Harddisk

Current operation system is Windows 7 PRO 64 bit, which works fine.

During upgrade to windows 10 i get the error code

0xC1900101 - 0x20017

It seems there is a problem with this laptop modell.

Would be nice to find a workaround.

regards

guenter

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Hello

I have also a ASUS F5SL Laptop with upgraded hardware

CPU

Intel Pentium CPU T9300 2.50GHz

Integrated GPU

ATI HD3400

RAM

4GB

Hard disks

CRUCIAL MX100 256GB SSD

Seagate Momentus 5400.4 250GB HDD (instead of CD/DVD)

Express card installed always

FRESCO LOGIC Chipset FL1100 5.0Gbps (USB 3.0 3xports)

During upgrade, while first boot to windows 10 takes place i get the error code: 0xC1900101 - 0x20017.

I my opinion it might be some BIOS flag, that win 10 requires and win 7 doesn't.

There is no option to configure such flags in ASUS F5SL bios vesion 308 (like enabling UEFI Boot mentioned here) so Win10 shouldn't require it to run as win7 does.

I did menage to kind of 'run' Win10 on F5SL but for test purpose only via Oracle Virtual Box:

Windows 7 PRO 64 bit, works fine, so where is the compatibility to Windows 10?

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