Re: Bios Admin Password Recovery

From: Bruce Chambers (bchambers@nospam.cableone.net)
Date: 03/30/03


From: "Bruce Chambers" <bchambers@nospam.cableone.net>
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 08:35:40 -0700


Greetings --

    A word of caution here: If you lack the basic knowledge to
remember a password, to look in your motherboard's manual to learn how
to reset the BIOS passwords, or that a PC's OS is completely
irrelevant to it's BIOS, you are definitely, most emphatically, _not_
knowledgeable enough to try overclocking. You stand a good chance of
destroying your motherboard and/or CPU on your first attempt. I
suggest you go back to studying, and learn quite a bit more about
operating and maintaining PCs in general before you start
experimenting.

Bruce Chambers

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"Delroy" <delroy@direct.ca> wrote in message 
news:01c001c2f68c$4010c390$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> Hello, I am having trouble getting into my bios to
> overclock my computer. Wehn I first got my computer I was
> able to change all the settings. I am running winxp home
> edition. In my bios there is an admin password, as well
> as a supervisor password. I beleive I set both of these
> passwords to the same name. Now I can't get into the
> admin account to change settings, it takes be into the
> supervisor account. Is there any way around this?? Anyway
> to reset the password or change it in the system
> registry?? Any help would be appreciated. 


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