Password-B-Gone (off topic)

[Daniel Lindholm]

Just take out the battery. The default BIOS-settings will work good enough.
Thats something you could tweak later if neccessary.

Daniel Lindholm / Sweden

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Goodale" <rrg@unlv.edu>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 8:14 AM
Subject: Password-B-Gone (off topic)


> <<OFF TOPIC>>
>
> A question for the more "digitally minded".  In an effort to exploit the
> never ending waste of the university I picked up a number of computers
> today.  I rescued them just a scant few moments from being crushed and
> deposited in a recycling dumpster.  When I came home and sorted through
> it I found both some trash and some treasure.  The trash was real trash
> but the treasure are fully functional computers and monitors.  It is
> truly amazing how universities chant their liberal "save the earth and
> environment" crap and tell the public how their budget is never enough
> and at the same time crush perfectly good and usable computer
> hardware... and other amazing things.  This of course is another story.
>
> Anyway I have some identical Dell computers.  I got one up and running
> with no effort at all, just plugged it in and hooked it up to a
> perfectly good discarded monitor.  Windows 98 popped up beautifully and
> I proceeded to clean the system.  Unfortunately it isn't always this
> easy.  Some computers have a password at start up, (before windows
> boots).  Of course I have no way of knowing what the passwords are so I
> am stuck.  My question is:  Does anyone know how to purge a BIOS
> password?  I know I could temporarily remove the bios battery but that
> would also delete all the other BIOS data.
>
> Any ideas?  Thanks in advance.
>
>
> Rob Goodale, RPT
> Las Vegas, NV
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