At 04:53 PM 10/23/01 -0700, Richard Thomas wrote the following: >This unit was brought in by a pawn shop and it has a password that pops up >as soon as the computer boots past the initial startup. It is not a hard >drive password and I can not boot off a floppy without putting in the >password. I have taken the laptop apart and there is no battery or jumper to >clear the cmos that I can see. Does anyone know a way to back door this >password. I have gone to pwcrack and there is nothing there to help..rich
HOW TO BYPASS BIOS PASSWORDS http://www.elfqrin.com/docs/biospw.html KillCMOS -- Great little utility to get rid of those forgotten passwords keeping the CMOS protected. Be sure read the documents in this file, as it resets all settings in the CMOS to defaults... http://www.utilitygeek.com/software/bios/killcmos.shtml Laptop Supervisor & user Passwords http://users.powernet.co.uk/sysserv/page126.html You could always update the BIOS, I'm sure that would remove the password. http://www.hp.com/cposupport/mobile_computing/support_doc/bpi04276.html -- Gerry Boyd ============= PCWorks Mailing List ================= Don't see your post? Check our posting guidelines & make sure you've followed proper posting procedures, http://pcworkers.com/rules.htm Contact list owner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Unsubscribing and other changes: http://pcworkers.com =====================================================
