[Gllug] OTish BIOS password

[Kristian Davies]

Depending on what motherboard, taking the battery out and moving a jumper
usually sorts it.


-Kristian

-----Original Message-----
From: Dylan [mailto:dylan at dylan.me.uk]
Sent: 24 March 2003 11:43
To: gllug at linux.co.uk
Subject: [Gllug] OTish BIOS password


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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