To flash HTC devices under Linux, there is the HTCFlasher tool. You might be missing the /dev/ttyUSB0 device in recent Ubuntu installations. To fix this, use lsusb and look for the device ID of a Microsoft Corp. Generic PPC Flash device (if in bootloader mode). Now do a or add the following line to your… Read More »
Savegames, as well as almost all other files, are encrypted using some crypto magic. The keys were found and now there are some tools to decrypt and recrypt the savegames called Segher’s Wii.git. To compile them, you need to also compile OpenSSL, add the include-directory of OpenSSL to the search path for gcc and also… Read More »
I found three different ways for bypassing the password-check on a Toshiba-notebook. I had no chance to test them, so I can’t promise they will work. Holding SHIFT Hold down the left SHIFT-key upon bootup – this should skip the password-check on most notebooks and on some desktop-systems. KeyDisk For this one, you will need… Read More »
Please also see this homepage for more information regarding removing passwords from IBM ThinkPads. 240 [2609] Short the jumper JP1. 310/310D/310E/310ED [2600] Use switch SW2 near CPU socket (second bit switch counting from the lowest side). ??? [2610], 365C/365CD/365CS/365CSD/365E/365ED [2625] The following procedure disables user and supervisor passwords: 355x [2619], 360x [2620], 370C/750x/755C/755CS [9545] How… Read More »
This is a short one: For skipping the password check, you have to hold down both mousebuttons after power-on until the first beep. If this doesn’t work, try to press both mousebuttons repeatedly.
Thanks to Heiko Kehr. (Everything was done according to this manual.)
These ones are something different. DELL notebooks save their BIOS password in an EEPROM-chip so it isn’t deleted when you short-circuit the BIOS battery or something like that. Also there’s no jumper/DIP-switch which disables the password. Nevertheless, there are three different ways to get such things fixed: I will describe the second one here. Service… Read More »
This is a short one: