========================================================================= CmosPwd Christophe GRENIER grenier@cgsecurity.org http://www.cgsecurity.org ========================================================================= CmosPwd 4.0 is a cmos/bios password recovery tool.

CmosPwd is under GNU Public License. You can freely distribute it. Bios and history Acer/IBM AMI BIOS AMI WinBIOS (12/15/93) AMI WinBIOS 2.5 Award 4.5x Award Medallion 6 Compaq (1992) Compaq Phoenix A08, 1993 IBM (PS/2, Activa ...) IBM Thinkpad boot pwd IBM 300 GL Packard Bell Supervisor/User Phoenix 1.00.09.AC0 (1994) Phoenix 1.04 Phoenix 1.10 A03/Dell GXi Phoenix 4 release 6 (User) Phoenix 4.05 rev 1.02.943 Phoenix 4.06 rev 1.13.1107 Gateway Solo - Phoenix 4.0 r6 Toshiba Zenith AMI 1.3 1.0 1.4d 1.0 & 1.0 & 3.1 1.0 1.4 & 1.0 1.3 1.5 1.5 1.4 1.0 1.4 1.4c 1.6 & 2.6 2.6 2.4 2.1 1.5

2.7 1.4c & 2.3 & 2.8 & 2.9 3.0

2.2

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Typical Usage for DOS and all Windows users ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------1) Identify your BIOS manufacturer (usually displayed at boot-up) 2) Start in DOS, or start a DOS session in Windows 95/98/ME. For Windows NT or Windows 2000 boot from a DOS or Windows 95/98 boot disk (you can find boot disks at www.AnswersThatWork.com), and run CMOSPWD from your boot floppy (or another floppy). 3) C: CD\CMOS_Pwd [Enter] [Enter]

4) Type CMOSPWD at the DOS prompt and press Enter. 5) CMOSPWD will display a list of possibilities. Use the possibilities itemised against your BIOS manufacturer. Remember : a) For AWARD BIOSes, use the Numeric Keypad (with NumLock ON).

b) AWARD 4.50PG BIOS always accepts "AWARD_SW", or "d8on", or "589589". c) Old Phoenix BIOSes will accept "phoenix". 6) If the standard method does not work, then try to kill the CMOS password with CMOSPWD /K (and press Enter), and then see if you can get into the CMOS without a password. If you can, you successfully "killed" the old CMOS password. DO NOT KILL THE CMOS on IBM ThinkPad 765 laptops. If you cannot kill the CMOS with CMOSPWD, then try the following, all done from the DOS prompt of real DOS or of a DOS session : DEBUG O 70 2E O 71 0 Q [Enter] [Enter] [Enter] [Enter]

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(The first character of each line above MUST be a letter, so whenever you see "O", read it as the letter "O" and not the digit ZERO, "0"). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|General Usage (List of commands) | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------cmospwd cmospwd cmospwd cmospwd [/d] [/d] /[rlw] cmos_backup_file restore/load/write /k kill cmos /m[01]* execute selected module

/d to dump cmos in ascii and scan code /m0010011 to execute module 3,6 and 7 Keyboard: /kfr French AZERTY /kde German QWERTY default is US QWERTY

Platforms - Dos-Windows version Well, ... it works! - Linux && BSD version Users can work on cmos backup but they need root priviledge to use ioperm function to have full access to cmos. - Windows NT && W2K Users can work on cmos backup. To work on cmos memory, gwiopm need to be installed and running. gwiopm gives direct port I/O access for specified ports to user-mode process (ring 3) using Ke386SetIoAccessMap and Ke386IoSetAccessProcess kernel functions. You need administrator priviledges to install this driver "instdrv gwiopm c:\tmp\gwiopm.sys" To remove the driver, run "instdrv gwiopm remove".

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|Laptops | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The password is usually stored in an eeprom on the motherboard, you need an eeprom programmer (electronic device) to retrieve it. TP 380Z: eeprom 24c01 TP 390: eeprom 24c03 (be carrefull, there are two eeprom) TP 770: eeprom 24c01 TP 760C,765D: eeprom 93c46 TP 600E, T21: 14 PIN 24RF08 (see http://www.ja.olm.net/unlock) HP Omnibook 4150,7150: eeprom AT24c164 (0x50-0xBF area) Dell Inspirion 7500: eeprom 24c164 Dell Latitude ?: eeprom 24c02 Compaq M700: eeprom 24C02 You can get/buy eeprom programmer in electronic shops or labs, you need another PC to use it. You can desolder the eeprom with hot air or you can try to "clip" the eeprom. With the eeprom programmer, backup your eeprom and run "cmospwd /d /l eeprom_backup". If you don't see the password, you can try to fill the eeprom with zero or FF. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|Toshiba | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Differents passwords give the same 32-bit CRC, so CmosPwd can only give one of them. To reset the password of an old Toshiba, you can use KeyDisk. (cf my web page) If this doesn't work, you can try to build the Toshiba Parallell loopback. To make a simple device that you connect to your parallell 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. A db25 looks like: 1 13 _______ \_____/ 14 25 --------------------------------------------------Divers - Award 4.50PG There is an universal password AWARD_SW. (d8on, 589589 ... works too) - Award Differents passwords give the same 32-bit CRC, so CmosPwd can only give one of them. Use the numeric keypad. - COMPAQ LTE 5300 notebook Tolga Sinan Guney: there is a reset jumper on the motherboard - DIGITAL PC300, Phoenix 4.0 Rel 6.0,0 Rene Pocisk: cmospwd /k works - Fujitsu ICL

aksion: passwords are stored in EEPROM - Phoenix There is a backdoor in old version of Phoenix BIOS, the universal password is "phoenix". - Siemens Nixdorf PCD-4ND, Michael: You can clear the password of this phoenix 1.03 with "cmospwd /k" Scenic Mobil 700, Josef Benda: "cmospwd /k" works! Phoenix Note BIOS v4.0 What to do if you can't use cmospwd to clear your cmos ? You can use debug to reset cmos CRC stored at 0x2E-0x2F debug -o 70 2E -o 71 0 -q

What to do if cmospwd don't work on your PC ? Try to clear password with cmospwd /k. If cmospwd /k doesn't work, password is stored in an EEPROM. Try to find a reset jumper on your motherboard or contact your PC vendor. If it works, I can try to discover how passwords are encrypted. I need to know what Bios you used and some cmos memory backup with their passwords. (cmospwd /w backupfile) For passwords, choose - some 1 and 2-letter passwords - BBBBBBB - BBBBBBC - BBBBBCB - BBBBCBB - BBBCBBB - BBCBBBB - BCBBBBB - CBBBBBB

Thanks to - Philippe Garcia-Suarez (AMI Zenith, IBM Thinkpad) - Mark Miller (AMI WinBIOS) - Ian Sharpe (Award 4.51PG) - Darren Evans (Phoenix 4 release 6) - Teun van de Berg (bug report for "cmospwd /w") - Giovanni (IO access under NT) - Robert Rafai (Dell Latitude) - Guillaume Letessier (Toshiba) - hackvenger (Phoenix 4.0 realase 6.0) - "PUTA MADRE" (Award 4.51PG) - SerbianHacker/Sasha Miloshevic (IBM ThinkPad 770) - Michael (Siemens Nixdorf PCD-4ND, Phoenix 1.03) - w0rm (Phoenix a486 1.03) - Olaf Freyer (Phoenix 4.05 rev 1.02.943, Phoenix 4.06 rev 1.13.1107) - Peter "Bluefish" Magnusson, author of !BIOS - Tjiq (User password of AMI WinBIOS) - Jedi (Award 4.51PG) - Michel Creppy from Le Software Man - YOGESH M (Award 4.51PG)

- Quattrocchi Stefano (Compaq DeskPro) - Pencho Penchev (Award Medallion 6.0) - Ernst Oudhof, bug correction for MODE_RESTORE_FORCE and to all the guys, who provided information about cmos and reported bugs. gwiopm has been written by Graham Wideman (http://www.wideman-one.com/). instdrv comes from Microsoft NTDDK. If you have problems or questions about cmospwd, please mail me. Christophe GRENIER grenier@cgsecurity.org http://www.cgsecurity.org