Re: Recovering ROM monitor password

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From: Richard Tilley
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 09:38

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In <dillon.0ox7@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes:

>    [...]	The best solution
>    is to take out the battery and short the battery terminals on the
>    motherboard together for a second or two to discharge the bypass
>    capacitors.

It needed about an hour when I did this to a slab. Half an hour was not enough.
The slab had the "dead as a stone" problem, probably caused by a user beating
on the power key.
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