On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:54:58 -0700 (PDT), mike
wrote:

On Apr 18, 2:10*pm, Mike Tomlinson wrote:
In article
s.com, mike writes

I ran into in a few different places, where from a Dos prompt you go
into DEBUG and supposedly change the values in some register that will
make the bios lose the password requirement - so far it hasn't worked,
don't know if I'm following the instructions correctly or not.

boot DOS
run debug. *'-' is the debug prompt, you don't type this.

- o 70 10
- o 71 0
- q

that's "oh, seventy, ten / oh, seventy-one, zero"

reboot.

with a bit of luck, password will be gone.

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(\__/) *
(='.'=)
(")_(")

All right, thanks! I'll give that a try probably this evening.

Failing that, locate a copy of KILLCMOS, a small utility that writes
to cmos RAM and *causes* a checksum error there. The result is that
on a subsequent bootup you will be directed to setup (without
requiring a pswd) where you can clear the pswd requirement.