If you are holding a —that adorable, rugged, netbook-style laptop from circa 2011—you might be tempted to just toss it. Don't. These little machines are legendary for battery life and keyboard feel, but they are also notorious for forgetting passwords.

We all know that feeling. You pull an old laptop out of the closet, fire it up, and instead of booting to Windows, you’re greeted by a padlock icon and a request for a System or Administrator BIOS password .

Do you have a Latitude 2120? Let me know in the comments if the jumper method worked for you, or if you found a different trick!