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BIOS Hacking !!

Nice Set of Tricks that can be Applied to change BIOS Settings even if BIOS is Password Protected !!!

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BIOS Hacking !!

Nice Set of Tricks that can be Applied to change BIOS Settings even if BIOS is Password Protected !!!

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Tejas Bhandari
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As you can see there are various ways on bypassing/changing BIOS passwords.

I have successfully used all of the options below on various computers many years
ago. These methods will work on computers of today. I have updated the Standard
BIOS backdoor passwords for current computers made as of last week. ( big grin ).
READ EVEYTHING BEFORE YOU USE ANY METHOD LISTED BELOW.

Basic BIOS password crack - works 9.9 times out of ten


This is a password hack but it clears the BIOS such that the next time you start
the PC, the CMOS does not ask for any password. Now if you are able to bring the
DOS prompt up, then you will be able to change the BIOS setting to the default. To
clear the CMOS do the following:
Get DOS prompt and type:
DEBUG hit enter
-o 70 2e hit enter
-o 71 ff hit enter
-q hit enter
exit hit enter
Restart the computer. It works on most versions of the AWARD BIOS.

Accessing information on the hard disk

When you turn on the host machine, enter the CMOS setup menu (usually you have to
press F2, or DEL, or CTRL+ALT+S during the boot sequence) and go to STANDARD CMOS
SETUP, and set the channel to which you have put the hard disk as TYPE=Auto,
MODE=AUTO, then SAVE & EXIT SETUP. Now you have access to the hard disk.

Standard BIOS backdoor passwords


The first, less invasive, attempt to bypass a BIOS password is to try on of these
standard manufacturer's backdoor passwords:
AWARD BIOS
AWARD SW, AWARD_SW, Award SW, AWARD PW, _award, awkward, J64, j256, j262, j332,
j322, 01322222, 589589, 589721, 595595, 598598, HLT, SER, SKY_FOX, aLLy, aLLY,
Condo, CONCAT, TTPTHA, aPAf, HLT, KDD, ZBAAACA, ZAAADA, ZJAAADC, djonet, %????? ?
p??????%, %?????? ?p??????%
AMI BIOS
AMI, A.M.I., AMI SW, AMI_SW, BIOS, PASSWORD, HEWITT RAND, Oder
Other passwords you may try (for AMI/AWARD or other BIOSes)
LKWPETER, lkwpeter, BIOSTAR, biostar, BIOSSTAR, biosstar, ALFAROME, Syxz, Wodj
Note that the key associated to "_" in the US keyboard corresponds to "?" in some
European keyboards (such as Italian and German ones), so -- for example -- you
should type AWARD?SW when using those keyboards. Also remember that passwords are
Case Sensitive. The last two passwords in the AWARD BIOS list are in Russian.

Flashing BIOS via software


If you have access to the computer when it's turned on, you could try one of those
programs that remove the password from the BIOS, by invalidating its memory.
However, it might happen you don't have one of those programs when you have access
to the computer, so you'd better learn how to do manually what they do. You can
reset the BIOS to its default values using the MS-DOS tool DEBUG (type DEBUG at
the command prompt. You'd better do it in pure MS-DOS mode, not from a MS-DOS
shell window in Windows). Once you are in the debug environment enter the
following commands:
AMI/AWARD BIOS
O 70 17
O 71 17
Q
PHOENIX BIOS
O 70 FF
O 71 17
Q
GENERIC
Invalidates CMOS RAM.
Should work on all AT motherboards
(XT motherboards don't have CMOS)
O 70 2E
O 71 FF
Q
Note that the first letter is a "O" not the number "0". The numbers which follow
are two bytes in hex format.

Flashing BIOS via hardware


If you can't access the computer when it's on, and the standard backdoor passwords
didn't work, you'll have to flash the BIOS via hardware. Please read the important
notes at the end of this section before to try any of these methods.

Using the jumpers


The canonical way to flash the BIOS via hardware is to plug, unplug, or switch a
jumper on the motherboard (for "switching a jumper" I mean that you find a jumper
that joins the central pin and a side pin of a group of three pins, you should
then unplug the jumper and then plug it to the central pin and to the pin on the
opposite side, so if the jumper is normally on position 1-2, you have to put it on
position 2-3, or vice versa). This jumper is not always located near to the BIOS,
but could be anywhere on the motherboard.

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