was given an ASUS X552 laptop. it seems to have Win 8 on it. its locked as no one knows the password. Can anyone assist ?

Try using a flash drive with a copy of Windows on it and go into the BIOS settings. Set the flash drive to the primary boot option. Hope that helps get you going.

there are a number of different sorts of passwords.. a Bios password, a hard drive encryption password, and a username password. which one are you talking about?

We get lots of requests for lost passwords, basically you are asking us to tell you how to hack in to a protected computer. The computer could be stolen for all we know.

Take the computer with proof of ownership to a workshop and they should be able to reset/remove the password, or alternatively reinstall the operating system from your recovery disks or download windows 8 .iso from the internet and reinstall that way.

If we posted any method of bypassing/resetting a password over the internet on a public forum, any thief or hacker would think Christmas came early

you do not say what password but try a Factory reset .

To Factory reset an Asus if I remember is Switch ON and then continually depress F9. at least during the Asus logo display

Go to the ASUS website to find out whats the boot botton to press when booting to boot into bios. Might be f12, 11, 2, all manufactures have different ones.

Your gpu is surface running the your CPUs atom gamma horizontal hold in the mother board gamma settings. Therefore the ROM is delivering an insufficient amount of protons in the high mileage capacitor fluxuator.

When the protonic reactor reaches optimized capacity, the neck flow is restricted.

Restore the reaction selector to gma 7 and open the pixelator measurement accelerometer to its factory default setting. Then reboot the entire unit.

Then when it is fully running at maximum fluxuation, sit on top of the unit.

Your butt gases will start to generate. After the butt regeneration process has started, load up the photon torpedoe flip flopper proton mass generator.

Then reset the gamma ray foton jing janger to 60 bps. Spin the field windings counter clockwise. Then set it on top the table.