advent 8117 laptop help needed asap

[vincent1]

hi i have recently acquired a advent 8117 laptop of a local car boot it had a broken dc jack on the mother board so i have replaced that and also it had a missing hard drive and replaced that the problem now is it has a power on password which i dont know can anyone help me?? so cant get in to bios boot from disk nothing at all

[digitalfever]

Do a google search for Advent BIOS flash - this will point you in the right direction.