[Gllug] OTish BIOS password

[Rickey Costas]

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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