At 01:22 PM 9/15/95 -0800, you wrote:

I've got a dilema. 2 laptops that I just purchased at a police auction have passwords, from what I can tell they are passworded at the cmos level. I would normaly just pull out the battery and clear the cmos but these are laptops and I'm not to comfortable about doing that. Any ideas?

laptop1 - Toshiba Satelite Pro T2400CT laptop2 - Epson Action Note 500 c

I am not familiar with those models, but if they work like a regular AMI bios, try hitting ctrl-alt-delete at the password prompt. On many passworded bios it will get you right past it. That will at least give you enough info to see if there is anything worth saving. (I have no problem giving out that trick since I have found most bios passwords pretty useless unless used against the most clueless of users.) | Minister of Forced Caffinization in the DNRC | alano@teleport.com | |"The moral PGP Diffie taught Zimmerman unites all| Disclaimer: | | mankind free in one-key-steganography-privacy!" | Ignore the man | | -- PGP 2.6.2 key available on request -- | behind the keyboard.| | http://www.teleport.com/~alano | <fnord> |