re: password authentication system Wednesday, August 20, 2008 at 6:14 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by joseph (1 messages posted) I just wanted to say thank you and good looking out.what u yold me really did work. thank you, joseph. On Sunday, July 23, 2006 at 1:40 pm, Patty wrote: >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: re: password authentication system (Patty: Sunday, July 23, 2006 at 1:40 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. 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