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From: pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.misc,misc.consumers
Subject: Re: Everex BIOS Password
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Date: 13 Jun 91 17:40:04 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!

Zenith does a similar thing.  However, they were able to identify to us
the chip that the password is stored in and we had our tech simply
remove that chip from each Zenith.  Perhaps Everex has a similar scheme
that someone more technical than your contact knows about.

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Internet: pjh@mccc.edu	     TCF 92 - April ??-??, 1992