Re: bios woes

Wm. G. McGrath enlightened us
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm locked out of the bios on an old 486 box. It works and I can
> boot with Tom's disk, but I need to be able to read the cmos
> password on an old Realtek 1287/1187 combo clock/battery/cmos. I've
> found a small utiltity that I can compile, cmospwd-4.3, but alas -
> no gcc. I've tried lists of 'universal' passwords without success.
> Can anyone recommend another utility I can run with Toms's from a
> second floppy, something else to try, or a pointer maybe?
> 
> 	tia,
> 	b.
> 

Some Award bios versions had no believable hotkey. Unplug the floppy or
the hard disk, and it throws you into setup. There will also be
utilities for updating the BIOS which run from a floppy.
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	With best Regards,


	Declan Moriarty.