-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I guess you're talking about the BIOS password. In that case, opening the box and carefully removing the CMOS battery, waiting a few minutes (some people say five minutes, someone else told me six to eight hours once a long time ago, but one or two minutes ought to be enough) and then reinstalling it. Be careful so you don't turn it upside down; it has a positive and a negative pole like any other battery.
You will need to reconfigure the hard disk, floppy disk drive and all that in the BIOS. Most of the time "Use Setup Defaults" or an equivalent option does the trick nicely and gets the computer back to a working state. Michael Kj�rling On Nov 1 2001 16:12 -0800, sari sari wrote: > I have a little problem I'm hoping someone can help me out. I have > a situation where I created a password to start up the computer, > even before windows starts, on my compaq presario and I can't > remember it - -- Michael Kj�rling -- Programmer/Network administrator ^..^ PGP: 95f1 074d 336d f8f0 f297 6a5b 2aa3 7bfd 8a70 e33e \/ Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- FidoNet: 2:204/254.4 "There is something to be said about not trying to be glamorous and popular and cool. Just be real -- and life will be real." (Joyce Sequichie Hifler, September 13 2001, www.hifler.com) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Public key is at http://michael.kjorling.com/contact/pgp.html iD8DBQE75wEjKqN7/Ypw4z4RAhARAJ98FH9htGPDFHBkkCXIeJgK3PMfZwCg+2kv UfskdYMxixJXQ5His8M/Vvc= =bHbh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
