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How to hack an Award BIOS password in 3 seconds?

How to hack an Award BIOS password in 3 seconds?

May 26th, 2005 17:08
Will Spencer, The Voyager, Niels Teusink, Xcrash, Dave, http://www.tech-faq.com/reset-bios-password.shtml

If you forget your password or you don't have time to unscrew your PC 
to delete the CMOS, you can try one or more of the known Award 
backdoor passwords.
One reported Award backdoor BIOS password is eight spaces. Other 
reported Award backdoor BIOS passwords include 01322222, 589589, 
589721, 595595, 598598 , ALFAROME, ALLY, ALLy, aLLY, aLLy, aPAf, 
award, AWARD PW, AWARD SW, AWARD?SW, AWARD_PW, AWARD_SW, AWKWARD, 
awkward, BIOSTAR, CONCAT, CONDO, Condo, condo, d8on, djonet, HLT, 
J256, J262, j262, j322, j332, J64, KDD, LKWPETER, Lkwpeter, PINT, 
pint, SER, SKY_FOX, SYXZ, syxz, TTPTHA, ZAAAADA, ZAAADA, ZBAAACA, and 
ZJAAADC.
Another method is to extract/remove the password using a program 
capable of low level stuff from within an Operating System, such as !
BIOS or CmosPWD.
Other methods which work on all BIOS versions involve resetting or 
replacing the CMOS chip.