over the last week, i have a little side project whereby i have managed to accumulate some pc's from a company who want me to sell them because they don't know what to do or how to do it etc. They are very old pc's, mostly around 300-500mhz processors, 5gb hd, 64-128 ram, but i can probly sell them all on for about £15 - 20 with software on for people in need of the basic pc.

I have come across a computer where i need to get past the password prompt at boot.

At boot, the Hard disk boots first, not the floppy or CD rom, therefore i can't boot a windows installation cd. The only way to fix this would be to access the bios and then change that, problem is that it it asks for a password to get past the bios...

how do i get around this problem?

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a) try and hack the password out in windows.
b) take out the cmos battery or move the jumpers across to wipe the bios (and therefore tha password but all the other settings too).

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"I wish my lawn was emo, so it would cut itself...."

option a isn't available hehe

guess it's the second one

cheers

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I have a found a good link on del.icio.us the other day:
http://del.icio.us/search/?all=bios
http://www.uktsupport.co.uk/reference/biosp.htm


Good luck

pulling the cmos battery worked like a charm.. cheers

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was it hard disk pw then rather than bios?

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Takes No Trap! | TFPC

no it was bios pw. had to take battery out for 1 minute, then put it back in

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done that a few times myself

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