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[Hap Hazzard]

Does anyone know of a backdoor bios password for a MobilePro BIOS vERSION4.00.01

I have stripped this mother down to the motherboard, changed the cmos battery for a new one and the bloody thing still asks for a password.

It's going out the windy soon.

Laptop - Novatech - model - 8640

[Wooster]

On a desktop you'd have a Clear CMOS/RTC jumper that resets the lot (usually).

On a laptop though it might just be a couple of solder points that have to be bridged.

P.S. It's a Mitac 8640 but others have branded it.
So you might get some mileage out of searching google using the other vendors names.
http://www.orphanlaptops.com/id263.htm

[Hap Hazzard]

I'm just going to give them it back. It took me ages to dismantle and assemble, just to get at the battery. I'm not doing it again it's a pain in the ass.

I was doing it as a freebie, my friend found it in a skip, that's probably why it was there in the first place.  

[Wooster]

Aye..it's probably junk mate.

[Hap Hazzard]

http://www.orphanlaptops.com/id263.htm

That's the one.

Thanks for looking anyway. I'll rake around a little more before i give up.

[Splinter]

Have you tried flashing the bios?

[Hap Hazzard]

They sometimes go wrong and bugger everything up, but thanks for the help. 

[Vasco]

Have you tried flashing the bios?

Yeah but she laughed at how tiny it was 

[Thermalsig]

Have you tried flashing the bios?

Yeah but she laughed at how tiny it was