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Date sent: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 15:02:09 -0400
Send reply to: PCBUILD - PC Hardware discussion List
<[log in to unmask]>
From: Chris Breece <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] BIOS Passwords
To: [log in to unmask]
> >Actually, there is a backdoor password for most of the systems, as I
> >learned from a computer battery company some time back. It was an
> >older motherboard with a bad battery, no auto hard drive detect, and
> >someone had entered a password. I was worried that I couldn't reset
> >the parameters, once the battery was out. While the guy was on the
> >phone, I kept trying his suggestions, and opened it in one minute.
about this password problem ... I was told that by taking out the battery
of the motherboard and then attaching the positive and negative poles
with a little cable would remove the BIOS password.
Has anybody done such a thing? I would work or it would burn the mobo.
Thanks.
Jonathan Navarro
mailto:[log in to unmask]
Network Manager M.W.F.
Clarks Grove, Minnesota
PGP & RSA keys available
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