[pchelpers] Re: beep..... pause.... beep beep

  • From: John Durham <john.modec@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: pchelpers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 14:01:26 +1300

Motherboard jumpers only clear BIOS passwords, ie those maintained by
the hardware. Windows 2000 passswords would not be stored this way, and
would not be affected by such jumpers.

Donald Bieber wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2002 15:27:07 -0500 "John Ford"
> <john.ford1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> I'm not exactly sure what I did but I attached another IDE HD to the
> other cable, plugged in the SCSI HD and stuff came on the screen, but
> I'm
> stuck at a logon screen for Windows 2000
> 
> Any suggestions as to where on the motherboard the jumpers are to
> clear
> the password. Hitting the cntrl/alt/del does nothing, nor does just
> hitting cancel.
> 
> I had a startup disk in the "A" drive and it skipped it and went right
> to
> the SCSI HD
> 
> I've worked a lot with Win98, but as stupid as it will make me sound,
> I've never used Win2000 before, and I know that the fact that it's a
> Compaq makes it more difficult.
> 
> Suggestions please?
> 
> cu,
> Don Bieber, The-Picture-Man
> 
> PS   How long a minute is depends on what side of the bathroom door
> you're on.
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