google the motherboard, and check the dip switch settings, usually dip
switch number 4 is the one that resets the bios password. ** gene
Mark L. Kahnt wrote:
Anyone remember how to clear a password on a BIOS? I've got a box from a
client that has stopped booting from CD, and this client is read
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Pigeon wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:54:10 +1000, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Mark L. Kahnt wrote:
> >
> >>Anyone remember how to clear a password on a BIOS? I've got a box from a
> >>client that has stopped booting from CD, and this client is ready to
> >>move to
On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 19:31, Pigeon wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:54:10 +1000, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Mark L. Kahnt wrote:
> >
> >>Anyone remember how to clear a password on a BIOS? I've got a box from a
> >>client that has stopped booting from CD, and this client is ready to
> >>m
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:54:10 +1000, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Mark L. Kahnt wrote:
>
>>Anyone remember how to clear a password on a BIOS? I've got a box from a
>>client that has stopped booting from CD, and this client is ready to
>>move to dual-booting but this is his main desktop box and
Mark L. Kahnt wrote:
On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 01:39, Kent West wrote:
Mark L. Kahnt wrote:
I've got a box from a
client that has stopped booting from CD
If the machine will boot off CD, you can . . .
As I'd mentioned, the main reason I want to do this is that the machine
has s
On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 01:39, Kent West wrote:
> Mark L. Kahnt wrote:
>
> >Anyone remember how to clear a password on a BIOS? I've got a box from a
> >client that has stopped booting from CD, and this client is ready to
> >move to dual-booting but this is his main desktop box and it needs some
> >c
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 12:56:33AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> First time I heard my friend from South Africa refer to a floppy as
> a "stiffy" I nearly coughed up a lung laughing. USAmericans
> (particularly males) tend to conjure up a different image by the
> word "stiffy". :-)
That makes me won
Johann Spies wrote:
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 12:39:24AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
If the machine will boot off CD, you can pop in a KNOPPIX CD and use it
to get to the network and save your data off the hard drive this way. If
it won't boot off the CD but will boot off the floppy, Tom's Root B
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 12:39:24AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> If the machine will boot off CD, you can pop in a KNOPPIX CD and use it
> to get to the network and save your data off the hard drive this way. If
> it won't boot off the CD but will boot off the floppy, Tom's Root Boot
> might be of
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Mark L. Kahnt wrote:
> Anyone remember how to clear a password on a BIOS? I've got a box from a
> client that has stopped booting from CD, and this client is ready to
> move to dual-booting but this is his main desktop box and it needs some
> cuffing around the BIOS. The passw
Mark L. Kahnt wrote:
Anyone remember how to clear a password on a BIOS? I've got a box from a
client that has stopped booting from CD, and this client is ready to
move to dual-booting but this is his main desktop box and it needs some
cuffing around the BIOS. The password was put on by the vendor
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>On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 21:38, nate wrote:
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>On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 09:17:24PM
Mark L. Kahnt wrote:
Anyone remember how to clear a password on a BIOS? I've got a box from a
client that has stopped booting from CD, and this client is ready to
move to dual-booting but this is his main desktop box and it needs some
cuffing around the BIOS. The password was put on by the vendor
Mark L. Kahnt said:
> I just want to get his key data backed up, figure out how to get Windows
> restored, defrag, repartition, and get Linux and GRUB installed, and then
> pray that he proves to be naturally adept at KDE or GNOME (he did catch on
> to many things quickly, only uses this box for e
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 21:38, nate wrote:
> Mark L. Kahnt said:
> > Anyone remember how to clear a password on a BIOS?
>
> this is very vendor specific, some bios's have backdoor passwords
> too.
>
>
> > Yeah, it's all complicated - simply put, I need to clear the BIOS
> > password, and I've forg
Mark L. Kahnt wrote:
Anyone remember how to clear a password on a BIOS? I've got a box from a
client that has stopped booting from CD, and this client is ready to
move to dual-booting but this is his main desktop box and it needs some
cuffing around the BIOS. The password was put on by the vendor
On 18 Nov 2002, Mark L. Kahnt wrote:
> Yeah, it's all complicated - simply put, I need to clear the BIOS
> password, and I've forgotten the normal trick (other than removing the
> battery and disconnecting the power supply, and hoping the CMOS is
> static RAM rather than EEPROM - which one guy I
Mark L. Kahnt said:
> Anyone remember how to clear a password on a BIOS?
this is very vendor specific, some bios's have backdoor passwords
too.
> Yeah, it's all complicated - simply put, I need to clear the BIOS
> password, and I've forgotten the normal trick (other than removing the
> battery a
On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 09:17:24PM -0500, Mark L. Kahnt wrote:
> Yeah, it's all complicated - simply put, I need to clear the BIOS
> password, and I've forgotten the normal trick (other than removing the
> battery and disconnecting the power supply, and hoping the CMOS is
> static RAM rather than E
Anyone remember how to clear a password on a BIOS? I've got a box from a
client that has stopped booting from CD, and this client is ready to
move to dual-booting but this is his main desktop box and it needs some
cuffing around the BIOS. The password was put on by the vendor of the
box, who then w
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