HELP! (Re: IBM password)

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From: Doug Sewell
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 19:41

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Help!

Since it's been brought up... we have a new lab of Gateway 486-33 machines
with IDE hard drives.  The BIOS (Phoenix 4.03 00) doesn't have a documented
way of password protecting the machine.

A student has installed some form of password protection on the machine.
If you boot from a floppy disk, the machine hangs.  If you boot from the
hard-drive, the screen clears and the word 'Password:' is displayed.

We suspect it's some form of commercial or shareware password protection
that imbeds itself in the partition table or some other place where it
will be activated during power-on self test.

Do you have any suggestions (besides removing the hard drives - which
we're considering ?)  How do we get rid of it ?

BTW, it's quite possible that the student responsible is reading this
forum.
--
Doug Sewell, Tech Support, Computer Center, Youngstown State University
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