[lug] old notebook

[llornkcor]

naa, I took the easy way out. I called Epson, and got the universal
password.
:o)
for free.
only to discover, the harddrive is fried.
oh well.
Its amazing, that passwords that are supposed to 'protect', actually have a
backdoor, and/or a way around them. Nice, in times like this, but actually
scary. Some security, took one phone call.
In fact, most bios passwords have a 'universal' password. Not as secure as
you think.

| Or, look for the "big" capacitor, and short it out.  CMOS batteries were
| replaced with large caps (usually up to 1 Farad).  You can get a small
| resistor and short out the cap leads.  This should discharge the cap, and
| wipe out the CMOS RAM.
|