I am working on a friends HP Pavilion g4-1125dx laptop, os win7. Right out of the gate when the laptop is powered up it pops up with a blue bar asking for a password (it isn't a windows password bar). I looked up online for the correct cmd to get into the bios. It is F10. But I can't get into the bios, I can't boot around that blue bar to start windows. nothing works. I tried pulling the hard drive to see if I could get the laptop to say "can't boot, no bootable drive installed". With the hard drive out, nothing in the cd-rom drive and nothing else like a flash drive pluged in. I powered up the laptop and got the same blue password bar. How do I reset the bios to default without taking the hole laptop apart to pull the bios battery?
Steve kc7byp