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Gateway 2000 BIOS/boot password???

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First post, by dreamscape86

Posted on 2022-10-03, 11:10

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Hi all

I've just got myself an old P5-100 Gateway 2000. It needed the BIOS battery changing and the user before thought the case was locked which it wasn't so i've swiftly removed the old one and put the new one in which gets me past the CMOS battery error but now, i am being greeted with this...

I presume this is a BIOS password for boot... The old owner has no idea what this could be and obviously i don't. As the CMOS battery has been not working for ages as well prior to this clearing the CMOS isn't going to fix it either so... Does anyone have any idea how i can get past this?

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Reply 1 of 4, by dreamscape86

Posted on 2022-10-03, 11:43

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Ok I worked it out

i forgot these older machines had jumpers. I switched jumper 3 on the board which after doing so i had some success but now it seems to be stuck in a loop doing this...?

What else am i missing here?

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Reply 2 of 4, by dreamscape86

Posted on 2022-10-03, 12:06

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Got it, it was booting from the network card, or trying to.

All sorted.

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Reply 3 of 4, by dormcat

Posted on 2022-10-03, 12:20

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Is there any reason taking screenshot photos with an oblique angle? You'd better take them at the right angle if you want others to be capable of reading messages on the screen.

Reply 4 of 4, by dreamscape86

Posted on 2022-10-03, 13:34

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dormcat wrote on 2022-10-03, 12:20:

Is there any reason taking screenshot photos with an oblique angle? You'd better take them at the right angle if you want others to be capable of reading messages on the screen.

reflections from my window and also refresh artifacting my phone seems to like it if i go from the side.

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