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From: TEMNGT23@ysub.ysu.edu (Lou Anschuetz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Everex BIOS Password
Message-ID: <91164.131028TEMNGT23@ysub.ysu.edu>
Date: 13 Jun 91 17:10:28 GMT
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 <1991Jun13.105945@neiman.east.sun.COM>
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In article <1991Jun13.105945@neiman.east.sun.COM>, evan@neiman.east.sun.COM
(Evan Marcus (Sun NJ Sys Cons)) says:
>
>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?
Indeed.  I put my password in first, then of course must give it to
the student.  One of the student's options is to CHANGE the password
since he knows the original one.  I'm right back to the beginning.
The salesman tried to play this fast one on me...   :-(