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theres usually a jumper that can be changed on the board to erase cmos
ram (and the password) ... set the jumper then turn the machine on
(youll just get a blank screen with the jumper in the delete position)
then turn it back off and put the jumper back in its original position
and itll boot and give you access to the bios.... the clock will be
wrong along with a few other bios settings but itll work...


On 19/04/07, baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org <baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org> wrote:
> Hello all you clever guys
>
> I am sitting her in the middle of a "school closing an apartment" and
> we have lots of old computers that we are going to sell or give away.
> Now as I try to clean op (format) this computers i run in to problems.
> I cant get in to bios to make the computer boot from a boot floppy to
> format it. It requires a bios password and even though I have the
> administrator password for the system it won't let me in to bios. (We
> are on a windows platform.) My question really is. If I don't find out
> abut this passwords things is the whole motherboard then inaccessible
> to me? Meaning I can do nothing to the computer in terms formatting,
> or reinstalling the whole thing ore for instance install a Linux
> system?
>
> /Mikkel



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