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    Panasonic CF-61 Locked out

    Discussion in 'Panasonic' started by snifferpro, Apr 17, 2010.

  1. snifferpro

    snifferpro Newbie

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    A customer brought me his CF-61 because it's CMOS locked.

    He doesn't remember the password (dementia).

    Is there a back door password to get into CMOS?

    I know there is a parrallel port plug that can be used to get
    access, but I don't have the pinnouts for that. If someone has
    the pinouts, I can make the plug myself.

    Short of a backdoor password or port plug, does anyone have a
    service manual for the CF-61. With that I should be able to
    remove or plug reset the CMOS to get past the password prompt.

    The only other option I can think of is to remove the hard drive
    and insert it into an external device and retrieve the data if that
    is possible.

    Help with this would be greatly appreciated.
     
    snifferpro, Apr 17, 2010
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  2. Toughbook

    Toughbook Drop and Give Me 20!

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    Welcome to the forum.... But....

    I'm sorry... We do not discuss bypassing BIOS passwords in open forum.

    Thread closed
     
    Toughbook, Apr 17, 2010
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