Help me crack this IBM Netfinity 3500 server.

[BukkY]

Help me *legally* crack this IBM Netfinity 3500 server.

I my friend got an old Netfinity 3500 server tower. His brother worked at a K-Mart that closed and sold all of the store IT stuff to it's employees. To his surprise It's password protected and we don't have the password. It boots into a black screen with white type and ends with something to the effect of "enter password". We would be happy if we could just reformat the HD and do a fresh reinstall of XP on it. But when we try and boot up with XP CD in the drive all we get is the password request. We don't know too much about PCs and nothing about DOS. Help us get past this password protection so he get this puppy going.

 

[Theguynextdoor]

Just get a new HDD....
or put the drive in another PC and format it from there.

 

[BukkY]

Thanks bro but It's a SCSI drive. And the other PC has no SCSI.

 

[MageXX9]

Look for a jumper to reset the BIOS on the motherboard. If you can't find it, look for a battery.

 

[BukkY]

How do you know which jumper is the right one? Is clearing CMOS the same thing?

 

[WackyDan]

Forget whether the 3500 has a power on password option/hd password option.

Go to the IBM site and look for support info on that box for resetting the power on password/or bios admin password.

It's basically asking for a password pre-boot.

 

[BukkY]

Thanks MageXX9 the battery removal worked!

 

[BukkY]

You reckon we'll need a floppy to boot it?

 

[oog]

probably not

 

[BukkY]

Ok it's not booting off the XP CD. We set the CD-ROM as 1st in the boot priority in BIOS. Guess this means we need a start-up floppy. How does one go about making a boot floppy? Can you at least point me in the right direction?

 

[natto fire]

Originally posted by: BukkY
Ok it's not booting off the XP CD. We set the CD-ROM as 1st in the boot priority in BIOS. Guess this means we need a start-up floppy. How does one go about making a boot floppy? Can you at least point me in the right direction?

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Very good site with lots of boot info.

 

[BukkY]

That is a pay site isn't it? There must be a place to find this info free of charge.

 

[BukkY]

OK now he says he held down a couple of keys during boot up and got so a place that allowed him to initialize the HD. The HD is formating as I type this. Maybe we can get somewhere after this step. Must sleep now...thanks for help everyone...GN

 

[pahecko]

here

you can download the setup file for created WinXP SP2 home addition.

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: BukkY
That is a pay site isn't it? There must be a place to find this info free of charge.

What are you talking about? Bootdisk.com allows you to download bootdisks, nothing about payment.

 

[BukkY]

Originally posted by: Dopefiend


What are you talking about? Bootdisk.com allows you to download bootdisks, nothing about payment.

I can't find anything on there but a request for donations when i go to the XP boot-floppy part of the site. Am I looking in the wrong area? <http://www.bootdisk.com/popfiles.htm>

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: BukkY

Originally posted by: Dopefiend


What are you talking about? Bootdisk.com allows you to download bootdisks, nothing about payment.

I can't find anything on there but a request for donations when i go to the XP boot-floppy part of the site. Am I looking in the wrong area? <http://www.bootdisk.com/popfiles.htm>

:roll:
http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

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