On the other hand, if he put his password in firmware, there is absolutely NO way possible to get around that protection. ----------------- Ron On Nov 26, 2005, at 4:38 PM, Miche Doherty wrote: > In a similar situation, I'd first talk to the person who set the > password and say "Please tell me the master password so that I can > change it, given that the computer is mine." If they didn't co- > operate, I'd back up all my data, zero the drive, then re-install > the OS and import my own files and so on.