A bright idea...

[Dotan Cohen]

On 25/06/07, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-06-24 at 20:56 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > At my university, the winboxen can boot from usb, but they are
> > configured to boot ONLY from disk. The BIOS is also password
> > protected, and the case is locked. What is a poor Fedora junkie to do?
>
> Save up to buy their own PC?  ;-)

I've since gotten a laptop :)

> > I unplugged one of the machines, then wormed a plastic stick (actually
> > a stepped-on mechanical pencil) into the case, and actually managed to
> > pop out the motherboard's button battery! Ten minutes later, there was
> > no more password on the BIOS...
>
> And how did you put it back in again?  Although every PC that I've tried
> can be booted up without any BIOS settings being stored (it'll use
> defaults, or get you to enter the BIOS and save some), I've yet to find
> one that'll put up without having a battery.

It booted up fine. So far as I know, the battery is _still_ at the
bottom of the case. They are old Compaq machines. If you want, I'll go
find out the technical info of the machines.

Dotan Cohen

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