I think he means the old-fashioned BIOS passwords that are "backdoors"
for the BIOS manufacturers, OEM manufacturers, and/or skilled users...
As far as I know, the Award BIOSs I have been using for several years do
not have this "feature"... (Or maybe I just did not try hard enough to find
out???)
Rick Glazier
From: "Wayne Johnson"
> Default BIOS password ? I know of no default password for this as there are
> usually 3 settings. The default being No Security, Secure the Bios or
> Secure the Whole machine & when either of the last 2 are selected then &
> only then it asks you for a password & AFAIK if one does NOT enter a
> password then the settings are NOT enabled.
> > At 07:29 PM 3/29/2005, Pranav Lal typed:
> >Will locking the BIOS prevent the use of default bios passwords?
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