> |A friend brought me a system in which the motherboard password is enabled
> |but he's forgotten the password. As a result, on boot up, when you hit
> 'DEL'
> |to get to the CMOS setup you're presented with a small screen
> that asks for
> |the password. Since we don't remember the password we're stuck there.
> |Is there any way to work around this problem and disable the password so
> |that we can get to the setup menu?
> |Richard.
> |
>
> There should be a jumper on the mainboard to short the BIOS out,
> which will
> reset it, or you could disconnect the battery for a while and that will do
> it too.

        The easiest way to get rid of a CMOS password without opening a computer is
to use a CMOS erasing program, such as killcmos (I think that's the name).
It completely wipes out the CMOS, which should take the password with it. I
have used it on a few computers that could not be opened for various reasons
and it worked very well. Type killcmos on an internet search engine and you
should find it. TTYL

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