Boot up from a LAN

[CookieKid]

I've accidentally locked up my computer through the BIOS.:rotfl:
Please help me fix this problem...I've heard that a way to bypass it is to boot up from a LAN. Please help me with this problem asap since school is starting soon and I need to use my computer.:D

[Prey521]

Who is the BIOS manufacturer? BIOS's manufacturer usually put a master password for such an occassion. If anything, open up the case, the motherboard should have a CMOS reset jumper that will kill the password and reset the CMOS back to factory settings.

[CookieKid]

The BIOS manufacture is IBM...something pheonix....sorry I can't really give you much info
:(

[rpeAMP]

I've done that a couple of times. What I did was set the jumper on the motherboard to "config" or something of that sort. If you don't have one of these, then try removing the round battery on the motherboard and keeping it out for 45 minutes to an hour.

[CookieKid]

Thanx....but tried that...I have a IBM Thinkpad 320...can anyone else help???:confused:

[gmcd33]

Booting off a network is more complecated than you think. You would need a BOOTP enebled NIC and a whole bunch of other crap.

Try this.

This is what you need:

1. Your notebook
2. An empty formatted diskette (720 kb or 1,44 mb)
3. A second computer (e.g. a DOS desktop PC)
4. A hex-editor (e.g. Norton DiskEdit or HexWorks)

This is what you have to do:

1. Start the desktop PC and start the hex-editor
2. Put the disk in drive A:
3. Change the first five bytes of sector 1 (boot sector is sector 0) to: 4B 45 59 00 00
4. Save it! Now you have a KEYDISK
5. Remove the disk from drive A:
6. Put the disk in the notebook drive
7. Start the notebook in Boot Mode (push the reset button)
8. Press Enter when asked for Password:
9. You will be asked to Set Password again. Press Y and Enter.
10. You now see the BIOS configuration where you can set a new password.