[Gllug] OTish BIOS password
Rickey Costas
rickey at lefteris.co.uk
Mon Mar 24 13:13:32 UTC 2003
There will be a BIOS clearing procedure in the manual.
Downlaod the manual from the manufacturers website.
Rickey.
Dylan wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> A friend (who I've almost converted to Linux) has bought a motherboard from
> bankrupt stock. I put some ram etc into it to se what we could do and
> discovered that it has a BIOS password. It's an Award BIOS, about 2 years
> old. Any advice on circumventing the password? It's set to boot from hd only
> (at least, it won't boot a cd or floppy) and doesn't recognise hard drives,
> presumably because the geometry is already set in the BIOS.
>
> I've taken the battery out, but don't know how long to wait for the cmos to
> fade, or even if that will be enough.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions
>
> Dylan
>
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