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March 3rd 06, 09:34 PM
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easy one?
Got an old Gateway 2000 I'm trying to get going for a struggling
church youth group. It was the office pc some years back, and has been stored. No one is around now who was here back when it was used. Password long since lost. I tried all the easy ones, "church", "office", etc; no go. I believe the password demand problem is a pc (Gateway) thing, not a Windows password. The reason I say this is because it pops up right away----before Windows loads. How do I deal with this? 
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March 3rd 06, 11:28 PM
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easy one?
This is apparently a BIOS password stored in the CMOS memory of the motherboard.
Either reset the CMOS via a jumper block on the motherboard or remove the C2032 3v battery for maybe an hour. Either one will make the password vanish along with the other CMOS settings... Ben Myers On Fri, 03 Mar 2006 21:34:43 GMT, lid (rbig) wrote: Got an old Gateway 2000 I'm trying to get going for a struggling church youth group. It was the office pc some years back, and has been stored. No one is around now who was here back when it was used. Password long since lost. I tried all the easy ones, "church", "office", etc; no go. I believe the password demand problem is a pc (Gateway) thing, not a Windows password. The reason I say this is because it pops up right away----before Windows loads. How do I deal with this?
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