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- From: rvs@parst1.UUCP (Roelof van Suilichem)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.wanted
- Subject: Re: DTK 486/33 password
- Message-ID: <rvs.21@parst1.UUCP>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 19:24:38 GMT
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- References: <1992Jul20.205224.2112@polaris.utu.fi> <1992Jul24.165021.24522@lonex.rl.af.mil>
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- In article <1992Jul24.165021.24522@lonex.rl.af.mil> gleasont@lonex.rl.af.mil (Todd C. Gleason) writes:
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- >In article <1992Jul20.205224.2112@polaris.utu.fi> katuulos@polaris.utu.fi (Kalle T. Tuulos) writes:
- >>I've been using a DTK 486/33 since last December on my workplace. When I got
- >>that machine, I immediatelly put a password so that no one else but
- >>me could mess with BIOS settings. Now, I'm leaving that work place
- >>due to military service and I've completely forgotten what that
- >>password was. I've tried about 200 different words which would be the
-
- I know some BIOSs reset if you press and hold in a button (<INS> ?) and then
- power-on. Your password should then be cancelled, as well as all the
- other BIOS and extended BIOS settings -- so beware.
-
- This might be documented in your motherboard/BIOS manuals.
-
- Hope this helps.
-
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