Rebooted - Won't Accept My Password
Sep 4, 2005
Had XP administrator username and password set up the first time I installed XP, but never enabled it until yesterday. Reebooted this morning and now windows won't accept my password. I don't know why it's not taking my password, or if I wasn't typing it in correctly (did not have caps lock on), but now I'm totally locked out.
If I load the xp cd, is there an option to unlock xp if I have the original serial number that was loaded for that system? I'm on my old system right now. I know you can reset the bios password, but I highly doubt that resettting the cmos jumpers will clear the xp logon password.
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Nov 1, 2007
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my PC is a Compaq deskpro EN, with a three slot memory motherboard,
two of the slot are occupied
slot 1: 128MB non parity SDRAM PC133
slot 2: 64MB non parity SDRAM PC100
this brings the total memory to 192MB, and has been running purfect since i bought the PC, but then i tried to upgrade with a Slot 3: 256MB non ECC SDRAM PC133
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I've had an infinite reboot cycle for the last 3 days now, and I still cannot figure out why. I have been looking at other cases and are quite similar to mine but not exact. This is my problem
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