I set a firmware password and restarted

It started up but the screen went blue so I tried to reinstal the start up disk ......holding c ....nothing screen still blue ......so I reset the chipset ......left shift,alt,control......it came back on ....screen still blue ....and the fans are running like a bat out of **** ....power is disconnected .........but the unit is not geting hot .....is this a problem with the power display and ...it's just running down the battery

How does you machine behave if you remove the firmware password?
Mac Open Firmware Password Removal

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I have never set a firmware password on my macbook pro, but when I hold down option to boot from a different drive, I get a lock, and have no idea what the password is..?

I have never set a firmware password on mymacbook pro, but when I hold down option to boot from a different drive, I geta lock, and have no idea what the password is, i am the first owner of my mac so its impossible that someone else has set the password, i have only noticed this becuae i made a bootcamp partition and installed windows onto the machine, after the installation... i shut down the comptuer and continued to use os x, days later i tried to boot into the boot camp partition again by holding down the option key on boot, but i got a window asking me for a firmware password that i have no idea of! please help me!
will

Hi macbookprowilliam, I have the SAME problem, that grey lock just appeared trolling me. I dunno the password and I wan't to sell this macbook! I need the password. Maybe it's a new malware! I don't even know how to set a firmware password and I am the only user on this computer too! I have a thread about that too: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3926399?start=0&tstart=0
So, did you fix it or got around it? Please reply! I am desperate.
Thank you

I upgraded to lion, now that I am restarting my mac, it is asking for a password. mind you i never set a password in the begining. so i used my start up cd and re set the password and restarted my mac only to be faced with the same delima. user password.

I upgraded to lion, now that I am restarting my mac, it is asking for a password. mind you i never set a password in the begining.
So i used my start up cd and re set the password and restarted my mac only to be faced with the same delima. user password please.
I am currently in safe mode, otherwise I can't log on to mymac
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thank you to all who responded. the final line was that I had to reboot and loss all of my info.
this was per apple store intelligence.

How do I set the firmware password on 10.7

Hi
How do I set the firmware password in Mac OS 10.7.2 (MacBook Pro) ?
The Apple instructions only seem to go up to 10.5.x
Thanks

Firmware password is not much use as any thief can reset it by pulling out the memory chips and putting them back in again.
The only real way to secure your data 99% is to use FileVault 2.

Firmware password and non-US keyboards

Hello everyone, I decided to post it here for your information. Anyone who have plans to set a firmware password to his Mac, and doesn't have a US keyboard, BE CAREFUL with the inclusion of symbols of its own keyboard layout (for example, I'm italian and so I've: "èàùéòì" but also "@" in different positions unlike the US layout). That because, as shown here: http://goo.gl/VJtOzA the system, during the setup will follow the classic layout of your keyboard (if you are Italian, "it-IT"), BUT during the insertion process it loads the default layout ("en-US") and so the symbols will be located in different places.
I have no idea why Apple did not warn of this thing in the process of setting!

Hopefully the following might help clarify my response:
If I had a work-around for this problem (other than the obvious "don't do that"), I'd have provided it.
If Apple were likely to see a problem report here, I'd have not passed it along to the Apple folks manually and directly. They've received and acknowledged the report.
If Apple were likely to see and act on problem reports and postings here, I'd have not suggested it be reported formally.
Unless the reports are in the Apple bug-tracking systems, I'd not expect to see the reports particularly considered.
Botching the keyboard handing for a password prompt is not something I'd consider appropriate behavior. I'd consider it a bug.
Whether  considers this a bug and worth pushing out a fix to the firmware and/or the bootstrap, I don't know.
For what it's worth, an article on Mac firmware and password processing from 2001 is exceedingly unlikely to be relevant to any current Mac systems. PowerPC (PPC) processors were used in 2001, and with completely different firmware (Open Firmware / OpenBoot, IIRC) than is used with the current EFI-based firmware present within all of the Intel-based Mac systems. Open Firmware / OpenBoot is very different from EFI / UEFI firmware.
I didn't follow the original shortened link, as I didn't know where that is going. One of the available link unshorteners translates that shortened link as a MacWorld article for OS X 10.1 which references Open Firmware password handling. In summary, it would appear that somebody else has created the same basic bug, a ~dozen years on.

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I must've mistyped something while setting my master password, and now I can't log in.

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Here's the problem. I have a recently purchased MBP that can only boot from Snow Leopard 10.6.7 and up. I have a Snow Leopard install disk that is 10.6.0. The mac will not boot from the disk, which means that I cannot use the disk to set up a firmware password. Any workarounds? Thanks.

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Before I get my Macbook Air, I want to know, does having an efi password set prevent you from booting with cmd+r without the password.
I already know that Cmd+s, Cmd+opt, cmd+opt+p+r, do not work.
It would be great if someone would just test it on their Macbook Air running Osx Lion with a firmware password set, and tell me if the Unlock dialog comes up.
Thanks!

I'm pretty tired but when I had Firmware pw set, it boots instantly into your login dialogue and then proceeds to load (or not load) the OS. So unless I'm being re.tarded, as soon as you enter in the firmware password, you're effectively starting from where you'd be if you didn't have the password set.
To your question, I'm 95% sure that yes, you would be prevented from getting around the firmware password. I don't think you could...? I'd test it for you but my recovery partition has melted into the lba - apparently....

I'm trying to set up an iPad for work and the apple id I was trying to use came back expired. I set a new password and then it said it was invalid. Now I'm locked out for too many tries answering security questions that I don't remember setting up. Help!

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Shootist007 wrote:
You must of set a password on the computer when you kfirst turned it on. Otherwise you wouldn't be using it.
What I think you are talking about is a user name and password for an Apple ID.
Apple IDs use a email address and a password you create for that email address on Apples website.
There should be a link on whatever page you are on to Create an Apple ID. Click that link.
Or just open App Store from the link on you Dock then Find the link to create an Apple ID.
Absolutely not. You can create a blank password. Yes it's stupid. Yes it's unsafe. But from helping people with their Macs, I find most do not set up a password. <facepalm>

I never set a firmware password?

I have a late 2013 MBP Retina 13' that says it needs a "firmware" password to open recovery mode even though I never set one , I had to get my MBP

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Hello:
Hopefully this will help you:
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH4117
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