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Article #4367Re: Unknown console password on DECstation 5000/33
From: Rob McNicholas
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:42
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:42
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In article <1993Jan20.152752.1@ssrl01.slac.stanford.edu> winston@ssrl01.slac.stanford.edu (Alan Winston) writes: So now what? Does anybody know how to defeat the console password protection? Do I have to buy new boot ROMs or something? We had a similar problem once with a DS3100. The suggestion we received from the Customer Support Center was to open up the machine, find the battery on the motherboard (which backs up the non-volatile ram), and remove it "for an hour or so." We did this, put it all back together, and discovered that "an hour or so" wasn't quite long enough. So, we took it apart again and left the battery out overnight. That did the trick. (Unfortunately, this causes the console to forget anything you've stored in the NVRAM, like the default boot device, etc, but resetting all that stuff isn't TOO difficult). -Rob -- Rob McNicholas Technical & Computing Services, EE/CS, U.C. Berkeley robm@eecs.berkeley.edu Voice: 510/642-8633 FAX: 510/643-7846
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!agate!robm From: robm@ishtar.Berkeley.EDU (Rob McNicholas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec Subject: Re: Unknown console password on DECstation 5000/33 Followup-To: comp.sys.dec Date: 21 Jan 93 16:42:54 Organization: Technical and Computing Services, U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley, CA Lines: 20 Message-ID: <ROBM.93Jan21164254@ishtar.Berkeley.EDU> References: <1993Jan20.152752.1@ssrl01.slac.stanford.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ishtar.berkeley.edu In-reply-to: winston@ssrl01.slac.stanford.edu's message of Wed, 20 Jan 1993 23:27:52 GMT