cracking bios passwords and bypassing win 98 login password
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I am giving this as I got lot of negative points and I want to revert back with some good things
I will now give you some ways of cracking your own system BIOS passwords.
These following methods are useful when you forgot your passwords or for some similar situations.
There are two methods of cracking Award Bios. They are:
1) Clearing the CMOS by opening the PC
2) Clearing the CMOS without opening the PC.
Before we start resetting the BIOS we can learn something about BIOS.
BIOS, it has the basic settings on your computer, such as how many kinds of disk drives you have, which one’s are enabled and which one’s are disabled and which one’s are used for booting etc. These settings are held in a CMOS chip on the motherboard. A tiny battery keeps this chip always running so that whenever you turn your computer off, it still remembers its instructions.
To enter BIOS you can press DEL key or CTRL+ALT+ESC keys all at once or CTRL+ESC keys at once at bootup.
Most of the computers have a BIOS which can be configured to ask for a password as soon as the computer is switched on. If the “Ask password at startup” option is enabled, then as soon as the PC is switched on, a dialog box welcomes you and asks you for the password. You cannot override this and there is no way of disabling this because to enter the BIOS, you need to know the BIOS password. So what do you do now?
disable it by hacking into the BIOS setup. But there’s a catch. To disable the BIOS password, you need to enter the BIOS. But as soon as you enter the BIOS, the BIOS ask for a password. The most common method of overriding this password prompt is by trying out some default BIOS passwords. Some of them are j262, AMI, BIOS, bios, setup, AWARD_PW etc. The best way to find the default passwords of various BIOS is to search at http://astalavista.box.sk, which is the best search engine for security-related matter. Before you start finding the default password, you should first note the company name and version number of the BIOS which is displayed on the screen each time the system boots.
If the default passwords did not work, then get ready for some serious hacking, try to reset the BIOS to its default settings so that it asks for no password at all.
To achieve this, try the appropriate method selecting from the following cases.
CASE 1: If no dialog box welcomes you by asking a password while booting, then follow this procedure to remove BIOS previous password and reset BIOS to its default settings (clearing the CMOS without opening the PC).
Type the code that follows as it is at the DOS prompt and then restart your system. Now no dialog box appears asking you to type the password, you have to reconfigure your BIOS settings from default to your required values.
The code follows:
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 AWARD BIOS. If it does not work, then search at http://astalavista.box.sk for the debug command for your BIOS version.
TIP: If you really want to learn more, then play around with the windows system files and try out new things. There is no way anything can happen to windows if you keep your backup files and your startup disk ready. I am sure if you try new things out yourself, you stand a better chance of learning new things.
CASE 2: If some dialog box appears at bootup asking you password to give access to the system, then do in the following way. (clearing the CMOS by opening the PC).
Open the computer and then look for a round lithium battery, it probably looks like a silver coin. So, remove the battery and after 30 second or so put it back. Some computers may also require you to reset the jumper, so look for a 3-pin jumper and reset it. For example, on most machines you will find a three-pin device with pinsone and two jumpered. If you move the jumper to pins two and three and leave it there for over five seconds, it will reset the CMOS.
KEEP IN MIND: Messing with the CMOS chip and the jumper is more dangerous than editing system files. So, do everything with utmost caution.
Now you had cracked the BIOS password and you encounter the windows login password dialog box.
Bypassing Windows 98 login dialog box:
Now I will tell you how to hack and bypass windows98 login dialog box.
Reboot your system and wait for the message…
“Starting Windows 9x …… “
When you see this on the screen, press F8.
The boot menu will come up. Select option 7, to boot into DOS. Then go to the windows directly by typing the following at the dos prompt,
C:
Cd windows
(Here “C” is the drive in which windows is installed)
TIP: Keys that will affect the boot up process are F4, F5, F6, F8, SHIFT+F5, CTRL+F5, and SHIFT+F8. Try them out and see what happens!!!
Then rename all files with the extension .pwl by typing the following command at the prompt:
C:
Cd windows
Ren *.pwl *.xyz
This above process will rename all the files with .pwl extension into files with .xyz extension.
You can also delete the files with .pwl extension by typing the following at the dos prompt:
C:
Cd windows
Del *.pwl
Now, when the windows password login pops up, you can write anything in the place where the password has got to be typed. As you have renamed (or deleted, although renaming them would be better as the victim will not know that his PC has been tampered with) the password files, windows cannot find that file. So it just takes the password you have typed as the original password.
