On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 01:09:19AM -0800, Faasse, P.R. enlightened us
thusly
> A friend donated me an old Fujitsu (now Siemens?) Ergopro X PC a few
> days ago. The PC is of the type type nr. X354/166-32-2.0GB, meaning a
> P166 with 32 MB RAM, 2.0 GBytes disk, but extended to 64 MBytes RAM.
> It's not the latest and fastest, but i kind of like the fact that it
> is a very quiet machine..
>
> Unfortunately, the thing has a BIOS setup password. Another misfortune
> is the fact that the C-mos battery is dead. These Fujisu PC's seem
> *not* to follow the 'standard' to keep the BIOS password in the C-mos
> RAM, but they seem to store it 'elsewhere'. Clearing the C-mos RAM
> will -in this case- not clear the BIOS password :-( Since the C-mos
> RAM is unpowered, it cannot boot, because it needs setup info, but the
> setup info cannot be set because it has a BIOS password... Is there
> any way to get this machine 'unlocked'?
>
I'd go looking for some sram chip on the m/b and see if I could find it.
Alternatively update the bios, which would take care of it being in the
bios chip ;-)
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With best Regards,
Declan Moriarty.
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