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- From: kevin@dipl.rdd.lmsc.lockheed.com (Kevin Anderson)
- Subject: Re: AMI BIOS Password - Answer!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.210414.14132@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com>
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- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 21:04:14 GMT
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- In article <20981@optima.cs.arizona.edu> jaw@cs.arizona.edu (Jim Wilson) writes:
- >>can't seem to access the BIOS Configuration Program (BCP) anymore. Is
- >>there any way to 'break' into the BCP or to remove the password?
- >
-
- > I did the same thing about 2 months ago. :) I called up my computer
- > manufacturer and they said use the backdoor password "AMI". Try this and
- > then remove the password you put in there "accidently".
-
- "AMI" is the default password for AMI bios until you change it. If you ever
- forget your changed password, there are a couple of ways to kill your password.
- One way is to disconnect your cmos battery. This will cause the cmos to
- loose its memory, and the bios will boot up using default settings (including
- using the default password, "AMI"). Some boards (like mine) have a jumper on
- the mother board that you can short which will have the same effect as dis-
- connecting the battery. The other way is to zap the password directly in cmos
- memory. The cmos is located at i/o port addresses 70h and 71h. There are 64
- bytes in cmos memory. Write the address to port 70h, and read/write registers
- at port 71h. For example, to read address 20h in the cmos, write 20h to address
- 70h, then read address 71h. The password occupies six bytes from 38h to 3dh.
- The addresses 3eh, 3fh, and possibly 37h are used in decoding the password,
- but I don't know how.
-
- In case anybody out there was thinking about trying to read the password, good
- luck. The password is encoded and I have no idea how to un-encode it. Anybody
- out there know how?
-
- Kevin Anderson
-