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Free Cmos password recovery

Written by IT News on 6:08 PM

CmosPwd decrypts password stored in cmos used to access BIOS SETUP.
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 click here

CmosPwd is free, it's distributed under GPL

Cmos password recovery tools 5.0 (October 2007)

• DOS/Windows 9x and Windows NT/W2K/XP/2003 versions, zip
• Source only tar.bz2