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- From: tomcat@cwis.unomaha.edu (Jeffrey S. Jo)
- Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Re: bios password problem (how to bypass)
- Message-ID: <tomcat.725931722@cwis>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 23:42:02 GMT
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- Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
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- umfinla5@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Doug Finlayson) writes:
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- >I have a friend who has inadvertently added a password to the bios and
- >then forgotten it. Is there an easy way to reset the bios , without
- >attempting to remove the battery ?
- >I don't know the bios manufacturer .
- >Is there a default password for AMI bios ,for example?
-
- >Thanks for any help,
-
- >Doug Finlayson
-
-
- Well, there is a default password, but you'll have to pull the battery
- for about a half hour and then turn on the computer. Default password for
- the AMI bios is AMI...they may have changed it but this was the last I heard
- it was. What you may also want to do is to read the manual that came with
- the computer and see if you can pull the chip that holds the password.
- Other than that, I don't know of any other way to get to the password.
-
- Any other suggestions out there?
-
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