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Subject: Re: Everex BIOS Password
Message-ID: <1991Jun14.201315.15848@amd.com>
Date: 14 Jun 91 20:13:15 GMT
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In article <1991Jun13.174004.17784@mccc.edu> pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) writes:
>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!
>

The password is stored in the EEPROM so is some of the configurations.
even if the batery is removed the password and these conf. will not be 
erased or reset.