I forgot the Firmware Password, and want to reset it.
How can I do it?
No DVD included when I bought it.
All the startup keys, like C, N, T, D, CMD+s, CMD+Option+p+r, CMD +v, Option, and Shift, does NOT work.
To add or remove DIMMs does NOT work.
Please, give me some helpful answer.
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
My very first response to you mentioned do you have a receipt. Had you answered yes, you do, the first time instead of talking about countries and other unrelated nonsense, we could have skipped all of this.
So you do have a receipt. Bring it and you computer into an Apple Store to have them unlock it.
Basically, with out going to an Apple Store you're out of luck. As this Cnet article explains, the password is stored on a separate flash chip that requires very specialized knowledge to program. Here's the link:
http://www.cnet.com/news/efi-firmware-protection-locks-down-newer-macs/
So without breaking into Cupertino and stealing the Apple app that generates the unlock file or doing some very difficult soldering work, an Apple Store is your only recourse.
Simply shut down your apple, take out ram if using laptop take out battery as well turn on apple without ram, hold down command ,option,p, and r until apple beeps 3 times after shut down this will bypass the firmware password and allow you to boot from hard drive, CD, DVD, or flash drive check and make sure you reset password sometimes thing resets without needing to do again good luck
Put it to your archive if you want to see before your messages.
I tried.
Fail. ㅠㅠ
Anyway thank for you. I could try manything.
Hey how did u fix it?
Please help me
How?
I went to the Service Center 😀
Took not a long time.
Thank you.
The problem have been solved aleady(I took my mac to a Retail Store),
but you answer is very persuasive.
Someday it happens again, I will try that way.
Thanks 😀
dude, you are saying you bought a stolen mac and want us to help you reset the firmware? are you d*mb? I hope the real owner had installed Undercover and get his mac back.
Same problem and no help from Apple support!!!
Where a person is, what "class" a county is considered, or a person's experience using computers doesn't change the situation. You bought a locked computer from a crook.
lol, Do you think I am looking for chip machines 🙂 ? So I don't need to talk with you about it. Apple has all the documents about customers. I am not a new mac user maybe like you.
chip machines
Whatever the heck that vague reference is supposed to mean.
I am not a new mac user maybe like you.
I've probably been using computers longer than you've been alive.
Thank you Guilherme Aquino Moresco
Same problem here!
How to reset Firmware Password? iMac, Lion, 10.7.3
