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Hello,

my 240X arrived today. It has BIOS Version 1.03. Before installing an OS, I first want to upgrade to the latest BIOS release (1.09). Question: the supervisor password is set on my 240X, and I, nor the seller, know the supervisor password. The power on and hard disk password are not set. Can I still do the BIOS update or will the BIOS update ask me for the supervisor password?

Kind regards,

Erik

Password first, anything else comes second.
Tim S

Thanks for the answer Tim.
With some soldering and software I managed to retrieve the supervisor password from the 240X.
Entered the supervisor password and removed it.
So the BIOS is now clear of passwords and I could enable the serial and parallel ports (which were disabled) and change the order of the boot device's.

In the meanwhile I saw that the BIOS was already at version 1.03.23. I mistakenly thought the latest BIOS version was 1.09. (I swapped the diskette version with the BIOS version).

Kind regards

Erik

does anybody know how i can update my BIOS software without the floppy disk drive and/or a CD-ROM drive?

i have a 240x i thought would benefit from having the last BIOS version.

none of the old posts i've found (re: TP600E) can help...