19 Jun
2009
19 Jun
'09
1 a.m.
On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 15:13 +1000, Doug Jackson wrote:
I dont know if it is helpful, but I recovered the use
of an old BIOS
password protected Digital laptop once by shorting the serial data out
line on the NVram chip to ground using a long wire that I routed outside
the case, powering up the laptop, which then complained that the NVram
was corrupt (gosh!) - I then entered the bios setup utility, typed in a
new password, cut the wire, and pressed 'enter' to set the password
(write it to memory) - Worked like a beaut.
The thing is, would that also clear the hard disk password? Probably
not. Recovering the password from the NVRAM sounds like the way to go,
assuming it's one password for the whole lot.
Gordon