Anyone remember how to clear a password on a BIOS? I've got a box from a client that has stopped booting from CD, and this client is ready to move to dual-booting but this is his main desktop box and it needs some cuffing around the BIOS. The password was put on by the vendor of the box, who then went broke three months later. I need to get Windows working (certain key files were clobbered by yet another virus - including explorer.exe - likely others, but I'm finding them one-at-a-time) to at least extract some key data before re-partitioning, and currently, for some strange reason, Windows can't see the cd-rom at all (while 2DiskXWin does, so I know that the hardware is okay - only M$ is $crewed ;) Yeah, it's all complicated - simply put, I need to clear the BIOS password, and I've forgotten the normal trick (other than removing the battery and disconnecting the power supply, and hoping the CMOS is static RAM rather than EEPROM - which one guy I know used a number of years back for his garage-built line of boxes.) -- Mark L. Kahnt, FLMI/M, ALHC, HIA, AIAA, ACS, MHP ML Kahnt New Markets Consulting Tel: (613) 531-8684 / (613) 539-0935 Email: kahnt@hosehead.dyndns.org
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