BIOS password for Solo 9300

[Guest]

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I bought a replacement motherboard for my Solo 9300 off of Ebay, cheap.
Too cheap. I have it installed, and it boots up, but to a BIOS
password. The seller at Ebay said "as is" and he doesn't answer my
emails.

I've tried everything - searching the Internet, backdoor passwords,
looking for jumpers (there are no jumpers on this motherboard), and
removing the CMOS battery. So far nothing has worked.

Anyone experienced with this???

 

[smith]

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I used CMOSPWD 4.2 to get the password off a Solo 5100 I bought used. It's
up to 4.6 now, you could try that. I've also heard about KILLCMOS but I've
never used it so don't know how that works.

Smith

<ljhawkins@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>I bought a replacement motherboard for my Solo 9300 off of Ebay, cheap.
> Too cheap. I have it installed, and it boots up, but to a BIOS
> password. The seller at Ebay said "as is" and he doesn't answer my
> emails.
>
> I've tried everything - searching the Internet, backdoor passwords,
> looking for jumpers (there are no jumpers on this motherboard), and
> removing the CMOS battery. So far nothing has worked.
>
> Anyone experienced with this???
>

 

[Guest]

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Thanks, Smith

But I am not able to use the disk drives - unless there is a way to use
them that I am not aware of. But I have tried with a floppy to access
the a: drive, with no luck. So I haven't been able to use these CMOS
programs.

One hope is if anyone knows how to bypass the BIOS password to get to
the a: drive. This password is not only set on the system, but also on
the BIOS setup utility.