FYI

[residentgeek.livejournal.com]

Dear Nursing Instructors:

Your BIOS password on your personal machine is *not* your Novell login password. Please remember this when logging in to classroom machines.

No, it really doesn't matter that you always put that password in first. Trust me, okay?

Thank you.
Your friendly resident tech

Comments

[achernow.livejournal.com]

Nice.. The classroom machines where I worked didn't use a specific logon.. They just used "Classroom" with no password... We almost always, however, got calls from profs wondering why their password wouldn't work. Well, the most common thing was profs putting their password in and not just hitting "Logon" with the default username and a 2nd problem was when they tried to use their username/password, which won't work because it doesn't exist on that machine (no domain server for the general population there).

-A

[residentgeek.livejournal.com]

We have it set up so that anyone who has a username/password can log in to any machine on campus (tends to save a lot of headaches on my end) but every once in a while I run in to people who just don't *get* it. Or they want to log in to more than one machine at a time, which is a big no-no around here.

[jacobine.livejournal.com]

Oy, bios passwords.

When we rolled out our image to a new aquisition, we made a point of removing the bios passwords people had set, for the sanity of all the techs if nothing else. And hoping the owner of the laptop hadn't changed it from the default....

[residentgeek.livejournal.com]

We have two or three people who are so freakin paranoid they demand BIOS passwords. Whatever. Like I couldn't get past those in less than 30 seconds with a half-assed screwdriver.

[warlockd.livejournal.com]

You obviously haven't messed with BIOS passwords on laptops.

They are a PAIN. Some models are easy, some aren't. IBM is "great" as they tell you have to mail theirs in.

I can't tell you how many laptops we have to "AS-IS" because of the bios thing.

[residentgeek.livejournal.com]

Wow. No, I just do desktops. Jeez. I guess I can understand, though. A little.