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From: evan@neiman.east.sun.COM (Evan Marcus (Sun NJ Sys Cons))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.misc,misc.consumers
Subject: Re: Everex BIOS Password
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Date: 13 Jun 91 14:59:45 GMT
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In article <91163.205448TEMNGT23@ysub.ysu.edu>, TEMNGT23@ysub.ysu.edu (Lou Anschuetz) writes:
|> Our university has been buying exclusively Everex PCs for about the
|> last three years.  Our lastest shipment for student PC labs came with
|> quite a surprise.  The new Setup routine lets you set a password on
|> the hardware.  The only way to remove this password is to take the
|> battery out of the machine and wait until the setup information is
|> lost.  As you can imagine, putting these machines in an unsupervised
|> student lab will soon lead to each and every one having a password
|> on it.  Argh!

Seems to me, all you have to do is put your own password in first.

Am I missing something?
-- 
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HOW: marcus@neiman.East.Sun.COM	   	 first child.