Most of the time, breaking bios Password is very easy. All you need to remove a small battery and reinsert and your BIOS will get restored to factory settings and so do the password will get removed.

The battery is found on mother board, small round one.

Here is image of one :

Bios Password can be removed via battery reinsertion as I mentioned already. Other password depends upon what type OS or security is being used.

First option to reset Admin password would be removing and reseating CMOS Battery but please be very careful because if you place the CMOS battery in the reverse direction and then restart the PC the Motherboard will crash .

The Second option would be aplicable if the Notebook or Desktop computer boots into Safe Mode:
Here are the steps:

1.First reboot Windows XP in safe mode by re-starting the computer and pressing F8 repeated as the computer starts up.

2.Then (in safe mode) click Start and then click Run. In the open box type "control userpasswords2" without the quotes - I have just used quotes to differentiate what you have to type.

3.You will now have access to all the user accounts, including the administrators account and will be able to reset the lost password.

4.Just click the administrators user account, and then click Reset Password.

5.You will need to add a new password in the New password and the Confirm new password boxes, and confirm by clicking OK.

All done, you have recovered the lost adminitrators password!


If issue persist you need to reinstall the operating system using Disc or recovery partition.

Please let me know if you have any queries,  if issue persist please reply me I will provide alternative.

@Sher
I understand that this site can be complicated for newbie, there used to be an "ASK Question" button, but its no where now. May be  that feature is not there.. Anyways, after few visits, you will understand that how these online community/forums works.

Now about your question, if your computer asks for passwords just after turning on ie. Password is set at BIOS level and reinsertion of battery can help (but in some cases it may not work / depends upon type of motherboard).
Regarding your computer unable to boot, can you tell me what OS was running .Was it a password asked by OS (operating system) ? Also, how did your son reset override it ?

Don't worry, your laptop is isn't going anywhere in trash...

Seriously, I am not getting any idea which password you are talking about, however, at BIOS level, he can simply enter again BIOS and disable that password.

Fixing your laptop shouldn't be hard but I need to know exactly what is the problem.. here I am not if it is BIOS password or your Laptop have some extra security feature (as I have seen in few).

I suggest you that show it to some vendor or computer service personal and then tell me what he said (if he is unable to fix it).