Gerry Coburn wrote:
>
> 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?

There are some utilities you can download from www.aragon.com I think
(Or make a search for astalavista.com, search for bios cracks and then
choose a site)  I have just used killcmos and it worked fine.  The only
disadvantage is that it clears the bios.

Regards
Joseph Lanzon
Bits & Bytes
MALTA

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