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[LUG] Re: Unknown BIOS password



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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