Excellent. I didn't try that method; and the power supply explains why
removing the battery for a few minutes didn't do it. I wasn't aware that
it acts as a capacitor to that extent... thanks
--Max
Mr O wrote:
Did you power the machine up after moving the jumper? On some
BIOS's you boot up and s
Did you power the machine up after moving the jumper? On some
BIOS's you boot up and set clear all passwords, save & exit,
poweroff and put the jumper back. Try that sometime if you're in
the machine again anytime.
Also, as for just pulling the battery, don't forget to pull the
power cord and hit
Yeah, I tried the jumper... both on the other position, and off
entirely, for a couple minutes each time. No luck. Same with the CMOS
battery, 5 minutes out didn't clear it...
The IBM engineering seems to be pretty nice. The case design is clever
(at least to my untrained eyes) and 5.25" drive
CR2032 is right. Generally on most motherboards (even
proprietary crap) there's a jumper near the CMOS battery to
clear it which takes about 15 seconds. Hope that helps you next
time around or anyone else dealing with a similar PC.
Ze' Hardware Guru,
Mr O.
--- Max Lemieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr
This is more or less what I was trying to do at the meeting last week
with the Tomsrtbt disk and the PII box. It turns out the README did have
instructions for getting the kernel off the floppy...
however, I'm not so sure that I could bootstrap it up to Debian at that
point. Here's what I did e
