CmosPwd decrypts password stored in cmos used to access BIOS SETUP.
Works with the following BIOSes
Works with the following BIOSes
- ACER/IBM BIOS
- AMI BIOS
- AMI WinBIOS 2.5
- Award 4.5x/4.6x/6.0
- Compaq (1992)
- Compaq (New version)
- IBM (PS/2, Activa, Thinkpad)
- Packard Bell
- Phoenix 1.00.09.AC0 (1994), a486 1.03, 1.04, 1.10 A03, 4.05 rev 1.02.943, 4.06 rev 1.13.1107
- Phoenix 4 release 6 (User)
- Gateway Solo - Phoenix 4.0 release 6
- Toshiba
- Zenith AMI
With CmosPwd, you can also backup, restore and erase/kill cmos.
AWARD 4.50 have a backdoor, a generic password : AWARD_SW SOYO motherboard have "SY_MB" as master password for Award 4.51. CmosPwd give equivalent passwords for Award BIOS, not original one. For more information, ReadMe
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Operating Systems
CmosPwd works and compiles under
- Dos-Win9x,
- Windows NT/W2K/XP/2003,
- Linux,
- FreeBSD and NetBSD.
CmosPwd Download
CmosPwd is free, it's distributed under GPL
Cmos password recovery tools 5.0 (October 2007)
CmosPwd Development
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Cmos Backup
I am working on putting together an archive of CMOS backups, usable to verify that new tools and crackers works. If you have a computer CmosPwd don't crack, give me a yell.cmosbackup-1.1.tgz
Toshiba
To reset the password of a Toshiba, you can use KeyDisk. If this doesn't work, you can try to build the Toshiba Parallel loopback. To make a simple device that you connect to your parallel port, a lot of Toshiba computers remove the password when you boot it up. The device, named "loopback" by some, could be made out of any parallell wire with 25pins connectors (db25). You should connect these pins: 1-5-10, 2-11, 3-17, 4-12, 6-16, 7-13, 8-14, 9-15, 18-25
