[OT] Waddizzit??

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Sun Jun 23 09:50:40 2002

Richard,

   Are the passwords set in the BIOS or in the OS? If they're set in the BIOs you can usually reset them by shorting two pins together on the motherboard. A lot of times there's a sticker inside the cover that shows how. If not then you should be able to find the instructions on the web.

  The cards sound interesting. It would definitely be worth the effort to break the password protection and see if there is software for the cards is on the drives. You might want to pull the drive and put it into another machine as a second drive and then boot from the primary drive and see if you can locate the card SW and copy off of the second drive.

   I find lots of PCs with interesting cards and IF the hard drive is still installed it's usually pretty simple to locate the card SW. I good file lister like LIST.COM helps. I also use Undelete to find any deleted files.

  You can also try to look up the card's FCC ID at the FCC's website. And/or look up the model number with a Google search.

  Let us know what the card is if you find out.

    Joe

   WHOA! I just found it. I looks like it's the interface card for a Logitech scanner. I searched for "scb5 junior" using Google and found this:


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Posted by Greg T.Bzdell on July 06, 2000 at 06:51:31:

Due to hard drive and memory problems, I would like to take
Win 3.1 off of my 486,but I have been unable to locate
a Dos driver that will work my Logitech scb5 junior board
my Scanman 256 is using. The only dos driver that logitech
currently has on their site is for scb1 thru 4 and does not
even recognize the scb5 junior. Has anybody run into this problem
and knows how to get the board working in DOS. Actually, I am using DR-DOS 7.03.
Thanks for any help.

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At 06:55 PM 6/22/02 -0600, you wrote:
>I just picked up a PC at the local thrift store. It has a board that's a
>half-height ISA card with the designation SCB5 Junior. It's got a mini-din at
>the backpanel, though it's definitely not the keyed sort used by a mouse or
>keyboard. I've got to admit, I'm puzzled.
>
>The PC, BTW, was a 150 MHz Packard Bell "Platinum" with a 5 GB WD drive and a
>56x CDROM, along with the "usual" sound and modem boards and the usual
>built-ins. It had no keyboard or mouse, and therefore cost only $1.99. I've
>already established that the drives work, and the machine, which has 48MB of
>72-pin DRAM, also seems to run without a hitch. Unfortunately, the OS will
>have to be reinstalled, since it was passworded.
>
>I snagged a similar one last week, with a 1.6GB HDD and an 8x CDROM, but it
>has a TV card that I'd like to make work if it's possible. Anybody have any
>experience with this Packard Bell stuff?
>
>Dick
>
>
>
Received on Sun Jun 23 2002 - 09:50:40 BST