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Armada 4210 - Power on Password
Never heard of a password being stored on a clock chip before.
Have you tried the reset jumper? It's usually the only jumper right next to the mainboard battery. Another thing to try is removing the mainboard completely from the power supply and remove the mainboard battery. Leave both out for at least 24 hours. My experience with fixing computers and notebooks shows that it can take that long for the mainboard to discharge it's power. |
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Found this in the armada support forum - hint to do more - but what?
"that was easy - found out on my own how to remove it its real simple - and you do need to remove all the battereys but you do -not- need to dissamble the laptop there is one more thing to do - its simple - and as plain as the noise on your face, but you would never guess it - verry sneek-ey compaq I want to slap my self for being a retard - slap slap and compaq charges money to do that ??? I wish my job was that easy" ANYONE WHO HAS A SOLUTION? ciao, Lutz |
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24 hours? On any machine I have always pulled the battery and then just hit
the power button to drain the unit. Never seen the 24 hour wait before. (well except when playing with a monitor) "Pham" . wrote in message ... Never heard of a password being stored on a clock chip before. Have you tried the reset jumper? It's usually the only jumper right next to the mainboard battery. Another thing to try is removing the mainboard completely from the power supply and remove the mainboard battery. Leave both out for at least 24 hours. My experience with fixing computers and notebooks shows that it can take that long for the mainboard to discharge it's power. |
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"LWI" wrote in message om... Found this in the armada support forum - hint to do more - but what? "that was easy - found out on my own how to remove it its real simple - and you do need to remove all the battereys but you do -not- need to dissamble the laptop there is one more thing to do - its simple - and as plain as the noise on your face, but you would never guess it - verry sneek-ey compaq I want to slap my self for being a retard - slap slap and compaq charges money to do that ??? I wish my job was that easy" ANYONE WHO HAS A SOLUTION? ciao, Lutz After you remove the RTC battery for the require length of time, you restart the computer without the battery pack installed and using only the AC adapter. After you successfully boot the computer, turn it off and put the battery pack back in. You have to set the time and date when you start after this. You can see why HP/Compaq would not want to give that information out freely. Every laptop snatcher would have a working computer. -- Earl F. Parrish |
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After you remove the RTC battery for the require length of time, you
restart the computer without the battery pack installed and using only the AC adapter. After you successfully boot the computer, turn it off and put the battery pack back in. Tried it after 12 hours. When connecting the AC adapter the computer starts automaticly. BUT: again 1. 162-system options not set 2. Floppy seek 3. Floppy access (but no start of setup Disk inside) 4. Power-on PW message 5. switch off 6. install bat pack 7. same problem again (like 1-4) NOT SURE WEATHER ITS MORE THEN ONLY THE PASSWORD BUT SOME BIGGER HARDWARE PROBLEM. ANY NEW IDEA? THERE MIGHT BE ANOTHER BACKDOOR. ciao, Lutz |
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Is there a clear Bios or CMOS P/W jumper?
KC "LWI" wrote in message om... After you remove the RTC battery for the require length of time, you restart the computer without the battery pack installed and using only the AC adapter. After you successfully boot the computer, turn it off and put the battery pack back in. Tried it after 12 hours. When connecting the AC adapter the computer starts automaticly. BUT: again 1. 162-system options not set 2. Floppy seek 3. Floppy access (but no start of setup Disk inside) 4. Power-on PW message 5. switch off 6. install bat pack 7. same problem again (like 1-4) NOT SURE WEATHER ITS MORE THEN ONLY THE PASSWORD BUT SOME BIGGER HARDWARE PROBLEM. ANY NEW IDEA? THERE MIGHT BE ANOTHER BACKDOOR. ciao, Lutz |
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Ever fixed a notebook?
Things are designed to use the minimum amount of power possible. I took a Gateway notebook apart for a friend because he forgot his own password. There was no BIOS reset switch/button, so the only option I had was to let the mainboard discharge. First attempt, I let it discharge for 12 hours; the system still had the password on. Second attempt, I left it for 24 hours; finally the mainboard discharged. Yes I know that desktops and notebooks are designed differently, but nothing ever works as you planed out. |
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Finaly I got the same experence. After 24 hours it worked the
described way. 12 hours wasn´t enough.... cheers, LWI |
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