Hello there,
Success in defeating the password! It was not that easy:
Many of you wrote, that I should pull out the CMOS-battery. So I looked
for one, but there was nothing on that board, which looked like a battery.
So I copied the little program from Miroslav, which corrupts the checksum
of
Some BIOSes allow you to flush them by holding down the INS key on boot.
However, I find the most reliable method is to deprive the CMOS of power.
There's a little watch battery on the motherboard, if you power
off your computer and carefully remove the battery for about 60 seconds,
all the
Most motherboards have a simple jumper to clear the CMOS memory. See if
you can find the manual on the net somewhere.
Peter.
Simon Law wrote:
Some BIOSes allow you to flush them by holding down the INS key on boot.
However, I find the most reliable method is to deprive the CMOS of power.
Have a look at:
http://www.pwcrack.com/BIOS/bios.html
(Sorry, don't have the original posting so I replied to this one)
c'ya
flo
On Sat, Aug 12, 2000 at 04:27:36AM -0400, Simon Law wrote:
(...)
better have that information handy. You may find it sitting on a label on
your physical hard
If the other methods mentioned fail, BIOS's usually have generic passwards
that unlock them no matter what password is set (v useful - if the case is
padlocked together at uni ;) ). Try searching on the internet for the
BIOS type + crack or something similar.
Hello there,
I found a pretty
Just pull out the CMOS battery and refix it. Once the CMOS info is
totally wiped out, the passwords would have gone too, afterall the
info is kept in the CMOS and not the BIOS. It is admitedly a crude
method, but works. Needs no tools besides your screw driver and
nifty fingers!
USM Bish
On Tue,
Hello there,
I found a pretty nice 486 PCI-motherboard in the bulk waste last week,
which I would like to use as secondary computer with debian. The board is
working, but unfortunately, it was setup in a way that you can only boot
from harddisk, and shadow RAM was enabled. So I tried to change
Danel, Try unplugging the unit, and removing the battery. When you pop it back
in, it should reset the defaults for the motherboard BIOS settings.
Daniel Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/08/00 09:25AM
Hello there,
I found a pretty nice 486 PCI-motherboard in the bulk waste last week,
which I
Daniel Reuter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello there,
I found a pretty nice 486 PCI-motherboard in the bulk waste last week,
which I would like to use as secondary computer with debian. The board is
working, but unfortunately, it was setup in a way that you can only boot
from harddisk, and
Quoting Daniel Reuter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Hello there,
I found a pretty nice 486 PCI-motherboard in the bulk waste last week,
which I would like to use as secondary computer with debian. The board is
working, but unfortunately, it was setup in a way that you can only boot
from harddisk,
On 08-Aug-2000 Daniel Reuter wrote:
Hello there,
I found a pretty nice 486 PCI-motherboard in the bulk waste last week,
which I would like to use as secondary computer with debian. The board is
working, but unfortunately, it was setup in a way that you can only boot
from harddisk, and
Another alternative: Just remove the battery that keeps the CMOS charged.
I assume that if you're going to install Debian anew, that you won't care about
losing it's settings.
Cheers,
Jason.
--On Tuesday, August 8, 2000 21:31 +0300 Lehel Bernadt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On 08-Aug-2000
Any good PC-engineer will know a universal password which will unlock the
bios. It's a 4-letter code, which works on most bioses. I had the same
problem once, but I forgot to note down the code, stupid me. I had a friend
who worked in a PC-shop who told me they had this problem at least once a
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