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Rep Power: 0 | I`ve thought about removing the cmos battery but I`m sure I would end up with more screws than i started with? |
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Rep Power: 13 | The is usually a jumper on the mobo to reset the BIOS in emergencies |
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![]() | Some laptops have a removeable plate over the battery |
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| Make sure you password the BIOS on your other machines. |
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Rep Power: 12 | A few years back this happened to me when some kids got hold of a dos bios password flusher and managed to completely screw a couple of machines. check out http://www.tech-faq.com/reset-bios-password.shtml for some ideas |
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There's a windows version included too if anyone is interested. You need local admin on the machine for that to work though. | ||
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Blog Entries: 1 Rep Power: 48 | Ahh but will it work on laptops. Tosh laptops can not have there password reset by anyone except a certified Tosh Tech. He uses a special dongle to reset it. This feature was implemented so that if you laptop was stolen noone could do much without the bios pass or dongle. Removing the battery on a tosh does not work as well I believe. Good luck anyway |
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Rep Power: 22 | We used to have one of those things at my old job it was just a parallel socket wired in a certain way |
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Rep Power: 0 | Is it a good idea to host that file for public access Geoff? It kinda renders BIOS password useless if you can just wipe them and if a kid gets ahold of the tool all hell could break loose. |
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Blog Entries: 1 Rep Power: 67 | 1. It's already freely available. Try Googling it. 2. Security through obscurity doesn't work. 3. Tighten up your physical security if your worried. |
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