i am taking a look at a really old desktop from 2004
there seems to be a password that not even cmos can eliminate. pulled battery out multiple times, and even started pc without cmos battery, and the password still exists!
got into the bios, and it's a supervisor password of some sort. seems like an intel motherboard, but i don't think gateway as a pc cloning company in 2004, was this advanced?
tried looking for jumper settings to switch out, and board appears not to have anything to switch around, and even tried booting board without hard drives.
it seems to be embedded into the BIOS firmware and I can't change any settings
in fact, the backspace button counts as a key stroke password
never seen anything like this before
installation of certain things and modifying bios is prohibited
it's still running windows xp and i don't even trust plugging USB flash drives into it without thinking it will infect the flash drive(s)?
tried a cmos bios hack from inside winXP to no avail, up to this point.
the system has been compromised multiple times with malware and who knows what, and even had an existing installation of norton dating back to 2006!
ready to put the system to its grave, very soon.
any ideas to get around this? thanks in advance!
there seems to be a password that not even cmos can eliminate. pulled battery out multiple times, and even started pc without cmos battery, and the password still exists!
got into the bios, and it's a supervisor password of some sort. seems like an intel motherboard, but i don't think gateway as a pc cloning company in 2004, was this advanced?
tried looking for jumper settings to switch out, and board appears not to have anything to switch around, and even tried booting board without hard drives.
it seems to be embedded into the BIOS firmware and I can't change any settings
in fact, the backspace button counts as a key stroke password
never seen anything like this before
installation of certain things and modifying bios is prohibited
it's still running windows xp and i don't even trust plugging USB flash drives into it without thinking it will infect the flash drive(s)?
tried a cmos bios hack from inside winXP to no avail, up to this point.
the system has been compromised multiple times with malware and who knows what, and even had an existing installation of norton dating back to 2006!
ready to put the system to its grave, very soon.
any ideas to get around this? thanks in advance!
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