re: password authentication system Sunday, July 23, 2006 at 1:40 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Patty (5 messages posted) THIS WAS sO SIMPLE. I went to the Dell site put on the service tag searched the troubleshooting area with the phrase password authentication system read a couple of lines it said password is "password" I tried it, Bingo! Next screen that came up was almost the same as the first one only it says this Harddisk 126874524173.. is protected by bla bla bla as before. so I added disk to my search phrase read a few lines then I tried administrator it actually checked but no dice... so i clicked the link that i was reading the header for I thought in the header the rest of the word had been cut off as they do, but when i got to the link i clicked on it said the same thing "Admin" so i typed that, and Yep BINGO! Those are the defaults for that password authentication system. "Password" is for the system and "admin" is for the disk. I'm in and by the way the cmos did clear when i was tryng to clear it cuz it says "time of day not set" and it wants me to run SETUP program strike F1 to continue, F2 to run setup. Thanks again all. Written in response to: password authentication system (Patty: Friday, July 21, 2006 at 3:13 am) Responses to this message: re: password authentication system (tony: Friday, September 28, 2007 at 5:12 pm) re: password authentication system (joseph: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 at 6:14 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] password authentication system (Patty: Fri, Jul 21, 2006, 3:13 am) re: password authentication system (mike: Fri, Jul 21, 2006, 3:28 am) re: password authentication system (Patty: Sun, Jul 23, 2006, 12:47 pm) re: password authentication system (Steve: Fri, Jul 21, 2006, 6:30 am) re: password authentication system (Steve: Fri, Jul 21, 2006, 7:03 am) re: password authentication system (Quasimodo: Fri, Jul 21, 2006, 12:04 pm) re: password authentication system (Patty: Sun, Jul 23, 2006, 1:06 pm) re: password authentication system (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Fri, Jul 21, 2006, 7:04 pm) re: password authentication system (Patty: Sun, Jul 23, 2006, 12:37 pm) re: password authentication system (Patty: Sun, Jul 23, 2006, 1:40 pm) re: password authentication system (tony: Fri, Sep 28, 2007, 5:12 pm) re: password authentication system (Dan: Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 10:09 am) re: password authentication system (MartinM: Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 11:05 am) re: password authentication system (Dan: Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 11:21 am) re: password authentication system (MartinM: Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 1:49 pm) re: password authentication system (joseph: Wed, Aug 20, 2008, 6:14 pm) re: password authentication system (barbeque: Fri, Nov 14, 2008, 10:30 am) re: password authentication system (MartinM: Fri, Nov 14, 2008, 10:44 am) re: password authentication system (werner: Sun, Nov 16, 2008, 12:55 pm) re: password authentication system (mohamed: Sun, Nov 22, 2009, 2:21 am) re: password authentication system (MartinM: Sun, Nov 22, 2009, 5:55 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum