Cmos password recovery tools
2.9 (23 March 2001)
CmosPwd is under GPL
- DOS-Windows 9x/NT versions + source zip
- Source tgz
CmosPwd works and compiles under Dos-Win9x, Windows NT, Linux and FreeBSD.
- README
CmosPwd decrypts password stored in cmos used to access BIOS SETUP.
Works with the following BIOSes
- ACER/IBM BIOS
- AMI BIOS
- AMI WinBIOS 2.5
- Award 4.5x/4.6x
- Compaq (1992)
- Compaq (New version)
- IBM (PS/2, Activa, Thinkpad)
- Packard Bell
- Phoenix 1.00.09.AC0 (1994), a486 1.03, 1.04, 1.10 A03, 4.05 rev 1.02.943, 4.06
rev 1.13.1107
- Phoenix 4 release 6 (User)
- Gateway Solo - Phoenix 4.0 release 6
- Toshiba
- Zenith AMI
With CmosPwd, you can backup, restore and kill cmos
NB: AWARD 4.50 have a backdoor, a generic password : AWARD_SW (d8on for one of
the short version)
SOYO motherboard have "SY_MB" as master password for Award 4.51.
CmosPwd give equivalent passwords for Award BIOS, not original one.
To reset the password of a Toshiba, you can use KeyDisk.
If this doesn't work, you can try to build the Toshiba Parallell loopback.
To make a simple device that you connect to your parallell port, a lot of
Toshiba computers remove the password when you boot it up. The device, named
"loopback" by some, could be made out of any parallell wire with
25pins connectors (db25). You should connect these pins: 1-5-10, 2-11, 3-17,
4-12, 6-16, 7-13, 8-14, 9-15, 18-25
Toshiba Linux
Utilities
