From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 13 9: 6:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ds9.sci.fi (ds9.sci.fi [195.74.0.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6111914F3B for ; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 09:06:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yurtesen@ispro.net.tr) Received: from ispro.net.tr (dyn-1-220.tku.netti.fi [195.16.222.221]) by ds9.sci.fi (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA05707; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 19:05:58 +0300 (EET DST) Message-ID: <37B44253.74CACD53@ispro.net.tr> Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 19:05:39 +0300 From: Evren Yurtesen X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: williamdwoods@etrademail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kinda a freebsd question........ References: <19990813151254.28553.cpmta@c008.sfo.cp.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 1 you can see your main board manual if you have bios reset jumper. 2 you can take off the bios battery to reset the bios (some motherboards does not have removable battery) 3 you can boot it with a dos floppy and try some of the bios cracking programs. The efficiency of those programs are depending on your bios version though. If you have a very new bios then you may have a bad luck on finding a working program. I would prefer the first 2 choices because with them you can save time. williamdwoods@etrademail.com wrote: > > This is sort-of-related to FreeBSD. Back when I was ultra-security-paranoid and running FreeBSD on an older system, I set a bios password on my box. Months later, I need to go into bios to turn on PNP bacause I am giving the system to a charity ( I got a bigger better system), but I seem to have forgotten the BIOS password :(.... > > Any ideas around this? > > William > > ********************************************************* > Our funds have Star Power. Explore our site and share your > investment ideas and real-life experiences. > Find the Transamerica Premier Fund that's right for you. Visit > . > ************************************************************ > > It's time for E*TRADE (SM) > Get your free @etrademail.com address at http://www.etrade.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message