Locked the bios: backdoor unlock code?

[ImMersIon]

I put a password into my abit nf7-s's bios (phoenix)......and i remembered taht sometimes there is a hidden unlock code that can allow you to get in:

Does anyone know what that would be to a Pheonix AwardBios?

thx

 

[ImMersIon]

I tried some of the backdoor passwords that are available with a google search and still nada!?!

 

[DermicSavage]

clear the cmos

if you dotn know how to do that, look for a 3 pin jumper next to the battery on the mobo, and move the jumper over a pin, leave it there for a few secs, and move the jumper back

your bios will now have been reset

 

[brom42]

I say just reset the CMOS. It'll take a lot less time to reconfigure the settings that it will to find another way in.

edit:

Damn, someone beat me to it!

 

[Mr_Evil]

clear the cmos

if you dotn know how to do that, look for a 3 pin jumper next to the battery on the mobo, and move the jumper over a pin, leave it there for a few secs, and move the jumper back

your bios will now have been reset

good thing you told him to use the jumper. I told a friend of mine who was working on a computer with a locked BIOS (needed to reinstall windows on it, wouldn't boot from CD) to reset CMOS. About 5 minutes later he hollers at me to help him put the battery back in...I say to him before starting over there. "There's no CMOS reset jumper?" and he replied "I don't know." Turns out the jumper was CLEARLY labeled "CMOS rest" and was adjacent to the battery.

 

[Schro]

The password is: jumper.

Not the type of password you type in, but an object that you should manuver around the clear CMOS pins.

 

[LadyJaqie]

zapcmos.com

old dos utility that, as the docs put it, 'blasts a shotgun blast at the data in the cmos to make the checksum go bad' or somesuch. how...nice