Re: [LUG] Unknown BIOS password

["Paul Sutton" <psutton@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

you could try www.bios-cracks.com

There is also www.plonkatronix.com this has a list of passwords for both AMI
and AWard,  he says he can't remember the Pheonix ones, however my printout
is from quite a while back

he gives the following
condo
djonet
inwpeter
biostar
biosstar
as possible ideas,  not sure if they work for,  alternativly use the
suggestion of removing the battery,  only on some it's soldered in,  I think
there may be a jumper in this case though.

HTH

Paul
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Charrett" <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 2:26 PM
Subject: Re: [LUG] Unknown BIOS password


> Take the bios battery out and leave it overnight.  It should forget
> everything and revert to the defaults.
>
> On Wed, 15 May 2002, Keith Abraham wrote:
>
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
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