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Kylie,

If you can't locate the KILLCMOS.ZIP
program, let me know. I can send it to you
as an email attachment.

It is 31K in size.

BTW, this will not work on most laptops as
they usually use EEPROMs to store the password.

Steven Walley
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At 08:56 PM 9/7/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>Best to just short the cmos and reset it.  there is a program called
>killcmos that will
>reset 99% of the ones I used it on.. Not sure where to get it though..
>
>Dave Jones
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Kylie Nielsen <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 1999 4:25 PM
>Subject: [PCBUILD] Bypassing BIOS Password
>
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I have a group of computers to try and fix. Some of the problems seem to
>> be hard drive related, however, every PC has the BIOS password protected
>

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