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| 238690 | 2004-05-23 11:35:00 | Just be thankful the PC isnt only about 3 or 4 years old with a flat Dallas clock battery :) They were just a big disaster and a scam, to save a few dollars, and throw the motherboard away when the battery ran out. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 238691 | 2004-05-23 11:41:00 | yea, some "clever" person invents something that is totally integrated into itself - thinking they have made something more convienient with just one package - ha! that would be the day... | agent_24 (4330) | ||
| 238692 | 2004-05-23 17:00:00 | What gets me is how insecure the cmos password is. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 238693 | 2004-05-24 03:56:00 | Dallas did that because people wanted secure passwords. Many laptops have "secure" BIOS passwords (with varying degrees of security), because so many laptops are stolen. Of course, even with a secure BIOS which you can't start does not protect any data on the disk. Anyone with a screwdriver can take the disk out and put it in another computer. :D The only cure for this computer would be another (unpassworded) Dallas package. It's probably worth what you paid for it. ;-) |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 238694 | 2004-05-24 08:30:00 | yes, that Dallas setup on that computer is very secure.. apart from replacing the dallas chip, there is no other way to bypass it... Except the overide password that i finally found. "power" Worked fine, and i deleted the old password - only problem is that the harddrive seems to have died...... |
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