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- From: robm@ishtar.Berkeley.EDU (Rob McNicholas)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
- Subject: Re: Unknown console password on DECstation 5000/33
- Followup-To: comp.sys.dec
- Date: 21 Jan 93 16:42:54
- Organization: Technical and Computing Services, U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
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- Message-ID: <ROBM.93Jan21164254@ishtar.Berkeley.EDU>
- References: <1993Jan20.152752.1@ssrl01.slac.stanford.edu>
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- In-reply-to: winston@ssrl01.slac.stanford.edu's message of Wed, 20 Jan 1993 23:27:52 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan20.152752.1@ssrl01.slac.stanford.edu> winston@ssrl01.slac.stanford.edu (Alan Winston) writes:
- So now what? Does anybody know how to defeat the console password
- protection? Do I have to buy new boot ROMs or something?
-
-
- We had a similar problem once with a DS3100. The suggestion we
- received from the Customer Support Center was to open up the machine,
- find the battery on the motherboard (which backs up the non-volatile
- ram), and remove it "for an hour or so." We did this, put it all back
- together, and discovered that "an hour or so" wasn't quite long
- enough. So, we took it apart again and left the battery out
- overnight. That did the trick. (Unfortunately, this causes the
- console to forget anything you've stored in the NVRAM, like the
- default boot device, etc, but resetting all that stuff isn't TOO
- difficult).
-
- -Rob
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