old'putertinker
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Hi, I bought an old computer at a garage sale. I know its a dinosaur, but then again, my technical school is teaching hardware beginning with 486 technology! I bought a nec ready 9616.
Most posts mentioning this antique are pre- 2000. It's in great shape, but It's also password protected. It's loaded with windows 2000 professional, which surprised me. I cant get into the sucker. I saw some instructions for using linux boot disks or taking out the cmos battery, but it seems too much trouble, because I dont even see the battery. It might be in a little plastic box jammed down in a place that's hard to get to. I'd like to see what sort of cache of old programs it's got. But I don't want anyone to get the idea I'm a hacker.
I see my Norton security going bonkers when I visit pages which describe how to defeat passwords. That's not hard to understand. I put the secondary hard drive in another computer. It was pretty boring stuff. I couldn't access the bootable hard drive- my newer computer went bonkers. (Blue screen of death)
That battery removal idea sounded hopeful. Oh well, at least the computer came with a nice set of yamaha desktop speakers. How do computer shops deal with the password problem, anyone know? Surely they can't afford to load software onto dinosaurs.
Most posts mentioning this antique are pre- 2000. It's in great shape, but It's also password protected. It's loaded with windows 2000 professional, which surprised me. I cant get into the sucker. I saw some instructions for using linux boot disks or taking out the cmos battery, but it seems too much trouble, because I dont even see the battery. It might be in a little plastic box jammed down in a place that's hard to get to. I'd like to see what sort of cache of old programs it's got. But I don't want anyone to get the idea I'm a hacker.
I see my Norton security going bonkers when I visit pages which describe how to defeat passwords. That's not hard to understand. I put the secondary hard drive in another computer. It was pretty boring stuff. I couldn't access the bootable hard drive- my newer computer went bonkers. (Blue screen of death)
That battery removal idea sounded hopeful. Oh well, at least the computer came with a nice set of yamaha desktop speakers. How do computer shops deal with the password problem, anyone know? Surely they can't afford to load software onto dinosaurs.