Solution found, thank you. the following is a summery of the problem
and the solution
Situation
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I found(got, received) a Macintosh dual g3 workstation that was not
powering on (ram was forced in to the slot the wrong way)
once i fixed
hey does any one have expreiance recoving lost passwrds on a mac?
i just bought a mac off ebay and it came with out any disks and all
locked up, i know about the command + s to boot to single user mode
the seller speilaize in off lease computers and want $130 for a copy of
os 10 for it.
if any
I don't know about Macs and it's been a while since I had
to rescue a PeeCee from this situation, but many PeeCees
will forget their BIOS passwords if you disconnect the
battery from the battery-backed RAM and leave it for a
while to allow any residual charge to drain. This also
results in all
On Dec 5, 2004, at 11:19, Steven C. Peterson wrote:
i just bought a mac off ebay and it came with out any disks and all
locked up, i know about the command + s to boot to single user mode
You probably have an open-firmware password set.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106482
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