old computer help

My friend gave me an old micron desktop (yes the kind that you can actually put a monitor on) it was new in '99. Anyway its an old pos 450 mhz w/a whoppping 16 mb of ram!!!! but when it posts it asks for a password. I have tried to manually clear the bios (even pulled the battery) but it still asks for a password, I cant even get into bios btw.

Any ideas on what the pass might be (factory defaults????)

thanks ahead of time
mark

 

Might take a look at this, http://www.cirt.net/cgi-bin/passwd.pl?method=showven&ven=Micron

 

Heres a couple of links:

http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2006/2006-02-16.htm

http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2003/2003-08-21.htm

If you go to langa.com and type in BIOS password in the search window you'll get heaps of links of the GURU himself as far as PCs' go imho.

Let us know how you get on!

 

Hey guys sry about the big delay in response, life side tracks you sometimes. Anyway the default passes didnt work for some reason so out of frustration I checked the bios jumper again and low and behold it had 3 pins so I changted it from pin 1&2 to 2&3, booted up and it came to a screen asking if I wanted to clear the passwords. voila! Now if I could only get pass the dang xp pro login.................
format here i come.
thanks for the input!