Eww. Good luck with battery tricks. Laptops can be difficult.
Try some of the BIOS backdoor passwords listed <a href="http://labmice.techtarget.com/articles/BIOS_hack.htm">here</a>
There are also cracking programs wandering the net. Is it a Phoenix BIOS? Award?
Last idea: A fair number of laptops will zero their BIOS config and password when the right pins of their printer ports are shorted for a limited amount of time. I'm hesitant to suggest you try it unless you're willing to accept the possible damage. I won't say more unless everything else strikes out.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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