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aeva

I thought I'd boot up my old R60 and see if it still works. I set a BIOS password for it that I do not remember, and therefore can't get it to boot from a CD. After a few tries it's now saying it's been tampered with. Thanks past me.

Anyways I guess this is garbage now unless anyone knows if there's some way to bypass this sort of thing :(

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SnoopJ

@aeva ThinkWiki appears to have a note about this that makes it seem like it's a "open it up and reprogram the chip" scenario

thinkwiki.org/wiki/Maintenance

Although I also saw references on there to the RTC battery being possibly tied to the message, so maybe poke around on there/their forums some more to get a second opinion

bri v0.2

@aeva oh god this is so relatable 😭 past me needs all of present me’s preservation instincts, but none of present me’s security instincts.

aeva

there should be something like a séance but for recovering long forgotten passwords

P_Malin

@aeva wait, why am I searching for "ouija board usb keyboards"?
Oh yeah, it was this post.

Michael Gurski

@aeva there's gotta be some jumper setting or something to reset that...

Ian Ridgwell

@aeva distantly and remove BIOS battery leave for some minutes. Try again.

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