Wyse Winterm VIA EPIA 5000 password problem

[Ruud]

I received this VIA EPIA but it had the wrong time and MSD mentioned that two floppy drives would be present (none were). So I rebooted the computer to enter the setup only to be greeted by "Enter password:". So I followed the procedure to clear the CMOS but to no good, still got this message. Worse, date and time were gone so when I rebooted, I had to press F1 or DEL every time. I started to write this message when I thought about the old IBM ATs which needed a program, SETUP.COM, to set the RTC. I tried it, nothing to loose IMHO, and it worked! No floppies and date and time are correct now.

But I still have to enter a password. If nothing can stop a program to update some parts of the RTC, is there a way to remove this password protection using a program?

Thank you in advance for any info!

 

[Krille]

Have you tried "Fireport" as the password?

 

[Ruud]

<baffled> Thank you very much, that worked! </baffled> Standard password for this board?

 

[Krille]

It would appear so. I found it on the BIOS tab on the page you linked to. A quick google search for "password Fireport" confirmed it.

 

[Eudimorphodon]

Out of curiosity, what kind of box did your motherboard come in? (Or did you not buy the whole terminal, just the motherboard?) I think this is the same board, or very close to it, that's in my machine that *looks* like it's the same case as a Wyse WinTerm WT3455XL, but has *no* labels on it at all. (I think they just slapped stickers on a tiny OEM case with this one.) It's kind of nifty that I was able to stuff a laptop CD-ROM drive into it using an apropos cable adapter.

 

[Ruud]

I'm given a lot of things and sort it out later. It came w/o HDD and I added the IDE cable and the CF card holder.



As you can see, no labels either.

 

[Eudimorphodon]

Yeah, that's pretty much the same, at least the metalwork. (The plastic bezel on mine is squarer, I think? I guess I'd have to pull it out to be sure, haven't messed with it for a long while.) There's no fan directly on your CPU cooler, does yours have the low-power EDEN CPU or is it a regular C7 and they went with a big heat sink and a fan screwed to the case wall? I nearly melted mine because it had a smaller heat sink with no fan on it... but it turned out it was *supposed* to have a fan on it, it'd gone missing before I scavenged it. I'd naturally assumed it was the fanless Eden variant, but then it was crashing every three minutes after warming up and I put 2+2 together...