Hi, If there is a battery, remove it and wait for at least a day to make sure the SRAM (if there is any) is empty. In those old days, settings were sometimes stored in a battery backedup (clock) ic. It can also be in a flashprom, you can search for a larger device with something like 28F.. or 29F... on it. Probably a DIP device. You could try to find another pc and copy their flash using a standard eprom-programmer. Or download a bin file or hex file from Fujitsu (or just ask them this file) and burn it into your flashprom using a standard programmer
Regards, Pieter Hoeben email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 01:09:19 -0800 To: Multiple recipients of list CHIPDIR-L <CHIPDIR- [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Fat City Network Services, San Diego, California > 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'? > > bye, > > Peter Faasse > > > > -- > Author: Faasse, P.R. > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com > San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB CHIPDIR-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). > > ========================================================== ====== > Deze e-mail is door E-mail VirusScanner van Planet Internet gecontroleerd op virussen. > Op http://www.planet.nl/evs staat een verwijzing naar de actuele lijst waar op wordt gecontroleerd. ______________________________________________ Hoeben Electronics Phone: +31 6 51590081 Ronkert 44 Fax: +31 13 5096025 5094 EW Lage Mierde Private: +31 13 5096200 The Netherlands E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.hoeben.com ______________________________________________ -- Author: Pieter Hoeben INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB CHIPDIR-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
