My Gazelle laptop (based on Compal FT01 body) was stolen from my house about 4 months ago, and I finally got it back from the police yesterday. when I turned it on, I was asked for a BIOS password. The guys who stole it were not the brightest lights on the tree (which thankfully ended up getting the ...
Had amd64 Ubuntu installed (dual core AMD C-50, assumed it was 64-bit), system locks up randomly. Created a i386 boot usb stick using the disk creator on a Toshiba Satellite running 11.04, try to go back to Acer to boot off of it. Get to boot load screen, select language, select install ubuntu, goes ...
I have just had to replace the motherboard of an Acer aspire 3690 laptop with a 2nd hand motherboard that I bought on ebay. Both my Windows and Ubuntu installs are showing problems, come to think of it, Windows is trashed but Ubuntu seems to be working very slowly but OK.I was looking to boot from m ...
I have a defective motherboard from this unit (Water spilled in it) that I need to pull the Bios Password chip from so I can put it on a good motherboard I have that is password protected. Do any of you know which chip it is? I find no less than 3 eeproms on the board, and don't want to experiment a ...
I want set a bios-password to all clients. Is it possible for the director-agent to tell me at witch machine the bios-password is set? ...
i bought a toshiba equim laptop and i have forgoten the bios password and need some help on how i can break the bios password. am really in a mess and need help desperately.is there any software that i can use or a way of breaking the bios password of toshiba equim. ...
guyz..i knew it is a little bit inappropriate to post this question here..but i really had no idea on this problem..wish u guyz here can help me...i had a com ...which is dual boot window xp and suse linux 10.1 ...erm...beside removing the CMOS battery...isnthere any solutions if i want to remove th ...
I am using Suse 10.3 I was wanting to test recovering a lost root password on one system so I made a user account and thought I'd try to "recover" the user password.I logged into the account with the password I had made, the account was fine.I logged out of the user and back into root and ...
how i can remove bios password........... ...
I have the machine mentioned above. It has a power on BIOS password enabled. I have removed the keyboard and unplugged the RTC battery (Real Time Clock). This had no effect. The question is... Does this machine have a CMOS battery? And if so, where is it? And if I can get to it, and unplug it, will ...
I recently bought a Dell Latitude at a flea market. They didn't know the BIOS password, and I assumed I could pull the battery and reset it. Wrong. I noticed that several people have come to this forum and received help. If there is any way you can help me, I would deeply appreciate it. The system n ...
from a very naive computer user. I have crashed my sites several times and for some reason I have lost my password, the one you enter when you are going into "preferences or Administration.I have no idea what to do. Can you please advise me. Remember, I am not very well versed incomputerspeaque ...
You maybe always get in some troubles with your PC. Lost Windows password? Forgot Windows password? Your PC was hacked? Therefore, it is a basic step for every Windows users to enhance the security of Windows password. In the networks, it is found that a number of user’s passwords are easy to gues ...
Please tell me how to recover the lost root password. ...
Plz help got this IBM p3 Thinkpad 600X that wont boot without bios password. av tried removing the cmos but no succeess. tried shorting the parallel port but wont work. Plz help ...
Ok My problem, My 3yr old X205 Toshiba with Phonix bios is asking for a bios password.My account is admin & never has had a bios password set. Press on switch,bios splash screen comes up then goes to password request.This is not a windows pass request but a bios pass request. any ideas are much ...
how can i recover my lost root password? :( ...
I want to read and display bios password.I am using phonix award bios v6.00pgversion ATi -42302e31 bios Date 04/20/06. operating system-- Xpi can not find actual address where bios password stored in bios chip.if password is set retrieve it and display. Plz tell me is 1d and 1c is correct for this a ...
I want to create program to show that bios password is set or notmeans Bios password is Enable or Not...How to check this setting through c or c++ programing........not by manual settingIs it any registry or log or inf file that shows Bios password is enablePlz give me link or sample code ...how to ...
I've just bought a netbook running linpus lite and thought it would be a good idea to setup a bios password.I entered the password, confirmed it and rebooted. It now won't let me login.Searching around I've found out that it only allows 8 characters for the password and I've entered 9.Any help with ...
is there any LINUX software in order to remove the Bios password? ...
Is it possible to reset a BIOS password besides opening the Pc case and removing the CMOS battery / jumper? Could a cd (for example Hirens cd) be used instead? ...
i have with me an old computer i been asked to install ubuntu in but there is no way of doing anything before i get pass a bios password. which they have forgot. also there is something strange about the keyboard not responding to input at all and it cant just boot from cd. it is correct to assume t ...
Does anyone have any tools for hp dc5700 Small Form Factor pc reset bios password? I would like to reset the password without having to take the computer apart. I tried these tools. http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/CmosPwdhttp://rapidshare.com/#!download|80tl2|68277812|unlock6.zip|122Here are the spec ...
This took me quite a while to figure out. I hope other people can benefit from my tinkering.What was the issue? Suspend to ram on my Dell D620 was not working. Actually I cannot remember it ever working on whatever Ubuntu version I used. FYI right now I'm using Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS.It turned out that ...
I am trying to remove the bios password from my computer, not too sure what I need to be doing, I assume i need to connect to jumpers together. I have attached a pic of my MOBO, any help is appreciated. ...
Greetings Ubuntu users.Thanks for reading and considering my question. I have a new Acer laptop (5720) and use GRUB to triple boot Ubuntu, XP and Vista. The bio fingerprint reader worked OK for a couple weeks, but a few nights ago said the fingerprint didn't match and asked for a password. The passw ...
Installed Ubuntu 10 weeks ago & now have lost username & password....any easy way of fixing....or do I need to reinstall? ...
HiUnfortunately I forgot my BIOS password. How to retrieve it ? Is there any command I can use ? ...
Hithank you for reading my postI lost Kwallet password or i think it has a default password which i do not know (i do not remember that i determine any password for Kwallet) is there any way to reset its password? ...
Okay, I lost my password. I was travelling for a couple of weeks away from my computer and when I get back... I totally forgot my password!Is there anyway I can 'retrieve' my password? I'm dual booting and currently posting on Windows. ...
What is the best method in the event of a forgotten/lost user password in Ubuntu & Xubuntu? ...
I have made this question easy for you all. First, there is the long version (including a back story), and then there is the short version (including only the important details). I hope that someone can help me!LONG VERSION:I recently bought a used laptop from a second-hand store. I brought it home ...
guys I need to find out how to crack my Bios password since I forgot it. can anyone tell me what I can do and if there are any Linux programs to crack it for me in case it happens again. ...
Recover a Lost Linux Passwordhttp://www.hackszine.com/blog/archive/2008/09/howto_reset_a_lost_ubuntu_pass.html ...
I am trying to tweak a few things on a friend's ancient computer. It is a Packard Bell 2100. The PC's bios has an admin password which without, you can only view the bios. You must be admin to make any changes. The friend does not know what a bios is much less the password. I googled and read that ...
I have a Dell Optiplex GL300. There is a password on the BIOS. How do I reset the password? ...
[SIZE=4]Hi.... I just got a screamin deal from a roomate of mine. $10 for Pentium III, with 128 mb ram, 10Gig HDD and the rest I added to it.On the initial boot up I get a request for a password. This seems to be a password request which is setup in the BIOS becuase it comes up right after the basic ...
I have a laptop IBM T22 and I forgot the bios and the hdd passwordcan I break it ? ...
I am very new at linux and the entire command interface so I am here to ask for your step by step assistance. I have lost the root password on a server that my buddy had setup. He is gone away for an extended period of time and I need to access the server. I have the machine and also all three of th ...
I recently changed my user password and my root password would not work anymore. I am sure it was my error but cannot figure out what I did. I will need some help on this because I am having trouble understanding some of the posts I found regarding recovering lost root passwords. I want to reset the ...
I installed my sql using marc lynage instructions. I set a root user password. I lost this so I followed the instructions I shut msql server using the prefpane Then typed this in terminal {in the mac user account which I installed with) Last login: Wed Feb 21 14:59:59 on ttyp1 Welcome to Darwin! rus ...
I get blue box after starting up my laptop sony pcg-v505 bx---the sony icon shows then it skips to a black screen w/ a blue box asking for a password.........after putting the wrong password in 4 x's it says disabled.....if I restart and press f2 the screen goes to phoenix bios set up--- and again a ...
Is there a jumper to reset the is password on the laptop? i hit the enter button as the new password but it wont let me use the enter button as the password.. its a startup password so i cant even access the computer.. I took out thecmos battery over night but that didnt do anything.. is there a bio ...
I lost the master password for my mac. However, I still have the admin passwords. Any way I can recover it? There is a keychain, (filevaultmaster), but I can't access it. I tried all known passwords (except the master password because I lost it) but got nothing. I opened the keychain in textedit, bu ...
I have lost the root password. The instructions at http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/resetpassword are clear until the sentence "In this case, you want the Drop to root shell prompt option so press the Down arrow to get to that option, and then press Enter to select it". Well, what exactly ...
I bought an open box Hp computer from circuit city before they went bankrupt, and I didn't know that the bios had been password protected. Now I need to access it, does anyone know if they used a standard password for all of their stuff, and what it might be? ...
i have a hp compaq nc6000 running on xp pro. keep coming up with error message c000021a fatal system error so cant access windows. trying to access bios to boot from disc but coming up with admin password. tried removal of cmos battery cable but still asking for admin password. is there anyway to by ...
I lost my username & password. But I cannot remember my username or password to my internet connection in the router. How can i sniff out the username & password without resetting the router?If someone canm help with this duff up.Dark Phoenix :o:mrgreen: ...
I got a laptop (dell latitude CPi) used a while ago. the power supply was broken, dell happily sold me another for $80. After the normal post a beige screen appears before windows loads asking for a user or administrator password. three wrong tries and the computer shuts off. also shuts of if some o ...