[LUG] Re: Unknown BIOS password

[leequick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Keith Abraham writes:

> My wife has been given an old Tulip computer with a duff hard drive.
> I've installed a 2.5GB drive which I had sculling around doing nothing
> but we have to use a BIOS setup routine to inform the machine about
> the new drive.
> The problem is no one knows the password to access the BIOS.
> The manual says that the factory default should be "1234567" but
> apparently the last user must have changed it.
> A splash at startup shows the BIOS to be a Pheonix 4.04  
>
> Any ideas anyone? 
>
> Keith  
Should be a motherboard jumper to clear Cmos to factory defaults(ie minus 
password) some PC's also have a jumper to enable password!(IBM/dell for 
example.)
Failing that removing Cmos battery usually kills it... However I hope this 
Tulip is not EX- military/Civil Service because they have a not so easy to 
remove password system, (speaking from nasty run-in with EX-Mod Tulip laptop 
experience). 

Regards, 

lee.
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