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In article <46a0bm$en7@Vir.com> boucher@ulix.net "Andr? Boucher" writes:

->In article <56407607wnr@hemmings.demon.co.uk>,
->   Andrew Hemmings <andrew@hemmings.demon.co.uk> wrote:

->>I have a Packard Bell pentium and the password has been lost. Is there a way 
->>to bypass it and then re-enter it?

->I have read somewhere that removing the battery that is keeping the CMOS alive 
->and wait overnight will reset the BIOS password to default value...

On some motherboards (this used to be the case, don't know if it will apply
here), there is a three-pin jumper next to the battery. The jumper will be
attached to one pair of pins (can't remember which....doesn't really matter
anyhow). What you do is to change the setting on this jumper.....so if it
was jumpered 1-2, you set it to 2-3 and vice versa. Leave it there for about
5 seconds and then put it back in its original position.

This has the effect of wiping the BIOS clean so you can start again. Okay,
it's a nuisance to set up the entire system again, but modern Ami's are
dead simple to set up anyway :) The nice thing is, of course, that it _also_
resets the password on the BIOS. You won't need it to get into the BIOS
setup to get the machine going again, but the default password is AMI.

Hope this helps

Regards

Francis

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