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I came across this link you might want to look at.....then it might be nothing too.
http://www.plasma-online.de/index.html? ... sword.html

Blair..we tried that already with no success. As I said, all available option on the net. no worky, Except the eeprom replacement. Thanks for your recom...tion.


teo

teo I sent you a PM

canuckcam wrote:teo I sent you a PM

Its the same, no joy! thanks anyway for the tip.


teo

Guys I swore off this topic, thinking that I had nothing to add to help, but as one last shot...

What about pulling the eeprom and putting it into a programmer and then if you could not read it, perhaps you could reprogram it with an image from an unlocked one? It has been years since I burned any, and they were eproms, but I know that eeproms can also be reprogrammed. I still have a programmer around here somewhere, but I do not remember what models it works with.

On the other hand the Internet is full of simple circuits to do this. http://www.miranda.org/~jkominek/hardware/eeprom/

Just an idea.

A good idea and one I will be exploring in a few days. I am currently traveling back to my base. I finally got some new BIOS chips. I already pulled the orginial BIOS chip, read it with my programmer and found nothing obvious relating to the password. I didn't want to screw with the original chip so I waited until I got the new chips in. I found a copy of an older version of the BIOS file having no luck finding the most recent version. I will burn that, install it and see what happens.

Teo , Did you ever get the CF-30 up and running ?

toughasnails wrote:Teo , Did you ever get the CF-30 up and running ?

Blair,.. I ended up buying an extra mbo. Its an MK2 and I stumble enough to find out after the swapped that is literally like new coz it has 0 hr. on it. The swapped was easy and I can confirm that the hardware like the casing for all Mark are compatible. I iniatially installed win 7 and it works fine. the only thing that I am trying to figure out is the wwan. Windows can't detect it but before the swap it works fine. I guess it need a reflash of the bios.


BTW, Thank you for uploading the recovery disk. The cf-30 MK2 vista. I dowloaded the iso last night and I am now on the process of preinstallation with my extra harddrive and its almost done.

The MBO. for an MK3 will be an expiremental untill such time that all necessary software and hardware are available to crack the code. I just found out base on an MK2 service manual that this mbo. has three security chips. Two eeprom and a the tpm module thats why its hard to crack.


teo

I DID IT!!! I finally got around the BIOS password. What I had to do was remove the BIOS chip, burn a copy of a virgin BIOS file to another chip and reinstall it. Not for the faint of heart but it is doable. Now I just have to figure out how to write the model and serial numbers into the BIOS. Mine comes up with N/A for the model and serial number on the information page.

Congrats, man! finally you've got rid out of it. Is it the chip that you mentioned before, the tpm one?

Again, nice job and you are the first on the whole worldwide web.


teo