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alexfido@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > i might be wrong here but if you remove the cmos battery for 1minute > then replace it,i think it goes back to default setting and gets rid of > passwords,but like i said i could be wrong. Motherboards usually have a BIOS password reset strategy of some sort - but it isn't always advertised widely for obvious reasons. But if it is a BIOS password the fact it is XP would be redundant, we'd need to know motherboard/type. On the downside some BIOSes do things to the hard disk to make hacking the bios password difficult, so I'd start with the motherboard documentation if trying to sort a BIOS password issue. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html