| i work for compaq as a tech and i support these internet appliance, well i decided to bring one to my desk the other day and see what i can do with it. I was more interested in the ctrl-u thing for getting into the failsafe. During some of my attempts i hit a key combination that got me into the BIOS. Well, some loser set a password on it and i can't even get it started now but i did nothing like bust it open and reset the CMOS or something like that. Compaq computers come with these disc's called quick restore, basicly restore to factory settings, and there are secrect codes to put in to run differnt modes of the quick restore and this failsafe is no different then the quick restore. These sercet codes are dumb, it's like a cheat in a game, you just have to press the right keys at the right time. The codes for the quick restore involve the capslock key, and the numlock key and ctrl-Q and i imagine it will be the same for the failsafe except there is no numlock key, and the ctrl-Q is ctrl-U in this case, but i do think the capslock key plays a lage role. There was something that i pressed before i did the ctrl-u that brought up the BIOS instead of the failsafe. But whatever it was the ctrl-u still brought up the BIOS there was just a key combination before that that triggered the BIOS. I did it three times by accident so whatever it was that i did it is nothing complicated. Anyway, since the other one has a password on it, I pulled out another IA-1 and i noticed right away that the compaq logo, that displays when the machine boots up, is larger then the other one, and there are differrnt markings on the machine as well. I have been unable to do anything with it and i have no idea if it means that it is 'unhackable' or nothing at all. But whatever, something to pass the time between calls i'll keep you updated on any new findings. If you want to know how to do a failsafe go to Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 274256 | |
