In the newer SONY VAIO Notebooks, the BIOS password is no longer stored in the volatile CMOS-area but on an EEPROM. Jean Delvare has published his results of an analysis of various Sony Vaio EEPROM dumps on his homepage. There you can see that the BIOS password is stored encrypted in the first 7 Bytes… Read More »
The Twilight Hack is described at Code Retard.It works by using a bug in Zelda – Twilight Princess. In short is goes like this:
This page in English. Da Notebook-Hersteller die Vergesslichkeit von Passwörtern als Problem erkannt haben, ist es oft recht einfach, einvergessenes BIOS-Passwort zu entfernen. Entfernen der Batterie Man trennt das Notebook vom Netz und nimmt den Akku heraus. Danach findet und entfernt man die BIOS-Batterie für ca. eine Minute und setzt sie danach wieder ein. Falls… Read More »
Diese Seite auf Deutsch. Since Notebook-manufacturers know of the problem of forgotten passwords, they often implement easy ways to remove BIOS passwords into their notebooks. Removing the battery Remove AC power and remove the battery. Now find and remove the BIOS battery for about a minute and then reinsert it. If this doesn’t work, try… Read More »
If Windows uses PIO mode instead of DMA, it probably have slowed down due to reading errors. To fix the slow-down, find the registry key: This contains the subfolders 0000, 0001 and 0002. 0001 is the primary IDE port and 0002 is the secondary. But watch the entries in there and you’ll get the idea.… Read More »