[Gllug] OTish BIOS password

[Pete Ryland]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 11:42:41AM +0000, Dylan wrote:
> 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

Tom's RootBoot Rescue Floppy Disc or whatever it's called has a AMIBIOS
password cracker IIRC.  If you can boot from floppy, you could give that a
go.

Pete
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