28 Sep
1999
28 Sep
'99
6:18 a.m.
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 10:37:10PM +0100, Tony Duell wrote:
Make a card with a BIOS extension ROM on it that
either boots a
floppy no matter what the NVRAM contains, or edits the NVRAM to
enable standard floppy boots. Drop that into your machine and go.
Why go to such extreme lengths to clear the NVRAM?
Hints: Leatherman[1]. CMOS battery. Jumper.
[1] Although I'm told the SwissTool is of better quality.
--
Brad Ackerman N1MNB "44% [of Americans] believe in strict Biblical
bsa3(a)cornell.edu creationism. Four million also believe that
PGP: 0x62D6B223 they have been abducted by aliens."
http://skaro.pair.com/ -- _The Economist_, 4 Sep 1999