This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: hrm..
Article: 7652 of alt.hackers From: bpheintz@bu.edu (Bradley Heintz) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: Re: hrm.. Date: 14 Apr 1995 00:29:23 GMT Organization: Information Technology, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA Lines: 40 Approved: I doubt it. Message-ID: 3mkfl3$p2k@news.bu.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: sunflower.bu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] Status: RO
Johnny Yuma (halo@news-server.engin.umich.edu) wrote: : Is it just me, or is the signal:noise ratio getting out of balance? Yeah, yeah. Welcome to the net. Feh. I've been gone for a while. Have the %#*%&^$&#*% AOLer's found a way to post here yet? : ObHack: Stop'd by my old school today to pick up some papers, and found 2 of : the computers in the library to be non-functioning. The first was a 386/25 : which someone had put a password on the BIOS, and over time, everyone who : knew it had either forgotten it, or left. The librarian wanted to get the : old moster back in use, so we had to figure out a way around the password. : My first attempt involved shorting the + side of the CMOS battery to the : case. Unfortunately, that didn't work. In the process of putting the case : back on the computer, I had to unplug the keyboard. I decided that I would : take a few guesses at the password and then leave (I was in a bit of a : hurry). As I booted the computer, up came the error message... : Keyboard error! Press F1 to enter setup... : Sure enough, after re-connecting the keyboard, and pressing F1, I was thrown : into the BIOS setup where I could change/disable the password. Not much of : a hack I guess, but a lucky hack at that! : Johnny Hot damn, Bubba! Wish I'd thought of that! My dad had a PC he'd taken home from work, and wanted me to install MS Office on it (yeah, he's kind of a TechnoPeasant, but he admits it freely). Same problem: BIOS password. Date on BIOS battery: 1991. ObHack: Disconnect BIOS battery, grab some beers, shoot some pool, come back. Reconnect battery. Boot. Run SETUP. "C:\>" - Brad -- Send flames for Brad to bpheintz@sunflower.bu.edu "Crispy-coated!?! But at what cost!" - Greg Rhodes
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