Phnom_Penh said:Hmm, what happens,
a. when the battery runs out?
and b, your computer doesn't work because creating a circuit with the pins resets the cmos?
to you 
They don't last that long. And what if the battery's a dud?Trigger said:A.) Battery lasts well over ten years so unless you plan on keeping the same PC for ten years, you're sorted
Thats subjective, and varies between motherboards, and wont work if you only have two pins. Also what if your motherboard has a bios reset button?Trigger said:B.) The computer would work because normally pins 1 & 2 need to be shorted- you short pins 2 & 3 to reset CMOS so double
Phnom_Penh said:They don't last that long. And what if the battery's a dud?
Thats subjective, and varies between motherboards, and wont work if you only have two pins. Also what if your motherboard has a bios reset button?
Its all slightly problematic anyway as there are certain programs that can be used to remove bios passwords.
Anyways, as for BIOS password resetters, that would require to boot off a floppy disk I guess and if HDD is first in the boot order and there was a BIOS USER password...
no. There are various ones that can be run from windows.Trigger said:
yeh... You just write the sector of the bios that you need to port 0x370 and then read the password from port 0x371.Trigger said:
