>From: Gerry Coburn <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: [PCBUILD] CMOS password
>Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 21:48:05 +0100
>
>I maintain a variety of standalone computers in my school and have recently
>found that one of my pupils has interfered with the CMOS settings and has
>password protected his work. The BIOS is an Award version on an oldish
>(c1993) PC marketed by Research Machines in the UK. The OS is Windows 95.
>
>Does anyone know how I can get around the password protection?
>
>TIA
>
>Gerry Coburn


Solution A)  Get the password from the student.

Solution B)  Open up the PC and short the jumper for resetting the CMOS.  If
it is an older PC you may have to input drive parameters by hand.  I would
verify make, model, and if possible cylinders, heads, and sectors of your HD
while you have it open.  You will need to get into the CMOS and set
everything back to the way it was.  If you are not sure of what is what in
the CMOS, check www.tomshardware.com.  He provides some real good info on
CMOS settings, what they mean, etc.

Solution C)  Run from the room, pulling out your hair and screaming like a
maniac.

By the way, to all of you on this list, if you have never been to Toms
Hardware page, I suggest you check it out.  He is constantly testing
hardware and I learn a lot from it, even though I do computers for a living.

Good Luck!!!  Kyle


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