[thelist] OT: BIOS system password

[Chris Blessing]

Generally motherboards have either a jumper to clear the CMOS or two solder
points you can short out.  Where they are on your particular board could be
the world's greatest mystery though. ;)  If you do that you'll be all set.

Chris Blessing
webguy at mail.rit.edu
http://www.330i.net

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Scott Brady
> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 1:46 PM
> To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Subject: [thelist] OT: BIOS system password
>
>
> Off-topic, but I'm stumped.
>
> I've got an old Micron P166 I was gonna try to put a Linux distro on.  The
> hard drive isn't responding, so I was going to try to go into the
> BIOS setup
> to see if those settings are correct (it's a machine I haven't used in 1.5
> years).
>
> Trying to get into setup requires a password (why did I put a password on
> there??).  For the life of me, I can't remember the password.
>
> So, is there anyway around this little password requirement??
>
> Thanks!
>
> Scott
>
> <tip type="ColdFusion">
> One of the new features in ColdFusion 5 is Query of Query, which
> allows you
> to query a previous query's results, thereby saving a trip to the
> database.
>
> Let's say you run a query to get every user's id, first name, and
> last name:
>
> <cfquery name="qryUsers" datasource="myDSN">
>     SELECT
>         user_id,
>         first_name,
>         last_name
>     FROM
>         usersTbl
> </cfquery>
>
> Now, say later in that page, you also want to get all the users with the
> last name of Smith, you'd do this:
> <cfquery name="qrySmith" dbtype="query">
>     SELECT
>         user_id,
>         first_name,
>         last_name
>     FROM
>         qryUsers
>     WHERE
>         last_name = 'Smith'
> </cfquery>
>
> Note that the attribute 'dbtype="query"' and also that instead of
> selecting
> from a database table (the FROM clause), you're selecting from
> the previous
> query.
> </tip>
>
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>
>
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