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Bios password reset
Name: Sven Date: June 17, 2002 at 06:54:01 Pacific
Comment:
I've tried with removing the jumpers and also with the CMOS-battery to reset my BIOS - Password, without success. Does someone know a tool to reset that password?
The following is a debug command works in Dos that you can try to remove the bios password (AMI BIOS only). Boot the computer with a Dos boot disk or and disk that has debug.com on it.
Type DEBUG. This will give you a prompt that looks like a dash. Type the following:
o 70 17 o 71 ff q
reboot the computer
legend:
o = the letter o 0 = the number 0 q = the letter q for quit
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