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- From: ivie@cc.usu.edu (CP/M lives!)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
- Subject: Re: Unknown console password on DECstation 5000/33
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.100004.63045@cc.usu.edu>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 10:00:04 MDT
- References: <1993Jan20.152752.1@ssrl01.slac.stanford.edu> <ROBM.93Jan21164254@ishtar.Berkeley.EDU>
- Followup-To: comp.sys.dec
- Organization: Utah State University
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- In article <ROBM.93Jan21164254@ishtar.Berkeley.EDU>, robm@ishtar.Berkeley.EDU (Rob McNicholas) writes:
- > 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).
-
- I don't think this sort of thing will work with the 5000s. The NVRAM is one
- of those Dallas Semiconductor parts that has an integrated battery. Even
- pulling the chip out of the socket doesn't disconnect the battery.
- --
-
- Roger Ivie "My God! That computer is full of Pentium!
- ivie@cc.usu.edu It's a wonder that you haven't been turned
- into mutants!"
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