Re: UN: Timeslicing?

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From: Louis Verhagen
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 00:24

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3386838@Jeff-Lab.QueensU.CA (Wes Garland) writes:

>In article uupcb@almac.co.uk, shakib.otaqui@almac.co.uk (Shakib Otaqui) writes:
>>  I have just seen a user report that said OS2SPEED messed up the
>>  CMOS on his system:  the date was changed and, worse, so was the
>>  AMI BIOS password.  He's had to disconnect the CMOS battery to
>>  regain access, and re-enter all the data.

>But if he had read his BIOS manual, he would have realised that there
>are two pins on the motherboard that you can short momentarily. They
>will cause a CMOS DATA INVALID message (but its not), which will
>force it *not* to ask you for a password, but dump you into setup.
>Set your new password, and presto.

I just reread my manuals to find this info. But I couldn't find
any info on the bios chip. Clones nowadays don't come with so
much information anymore. Maybe the friend of Shakib had
the same problem?

Greetings
Louis

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From: vla@ccadfa.cc.adfa.oz.au (Louis Verhagen)
Subject: Re: UN: Timeslicing?
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