This is true. I have a Panasonic laptop that suffered a BIOS corruption and
wouldn't even accept password on boot up. No go, no way. Then the b*stards at
Panasonic charged me $100.00 to fix it even though it was in warranty. (They
claimed that I must have "accidentally" changed my password - a multiple step
operation which requires several confirmations.) And they reformatted my hard
drive just out of spite.
"Len Paris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I think that what makes this tough to do, if I understand the
>problem, is that, until a password is entered, the machine will
>not boot from anything. That makes it difficult to load and run
>password cracking software.
>>
>> > Some notebooks are pretty nasty about passwords, in
>> > the sense that it is burned into the ROM and is not easily
>> > changed or bypassed. This is because Laptops are a
>> > lot more likely to be stolen that the average desktop. Who
>> > makes the computer? Who makes the BIOS?
>>
>> If that is the case, you can easily download BIOS
>> password cracking programs from the internet.
>> We used to use one of these as part of playing
>> Quake at night in the computer rooms at university
>> (we had to enable floppy- booting in the BIOS).
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