02/28/06
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kyone
My first line of defence for securing my data on my OQO is to password the BOIS. Will this be possible with a device like the cPC without a keyboard ? Most computers today allow for USB keyboards to be used with the BIOS... even still, having to rely on an external device every time I want to turn on the device or take it out of hibernation is not plausible.
03/01/06
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educationk12
How did you password the BIOS on the oqo?
03/01/06
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kyone
go into the BIOS settings and set a password, the same as any BIOS
03/01/06
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educationk12
Okay, I had never heard of passwording the BIOS, which makes just as much sense as passwording windows. So I guess I just press F2 until the BIOS appears and it'll be in there. That's easy enough. I should have the BIOS memorized after that Ghost OQO bootup CD thing. Thanks.
03/01/06
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fil
On the Sony U, the bios is accessible with the touchscreen, but it was something special that Sony had to do for the U.
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kyone
One of the benefits of passwording the bios as opposed to just windows is that it stops someone reinstalling the operating system with a boot device. Not knowing the bios password makes the computer all but useless to anyone else.
The issue with a bios password is that you always must slide the screen up when starting the OQO and when it comes out of hibernation.
03/02/06
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MeanSquare
It's a guess, but a fairly educated one that the cPC will probably turn on into Windows Mobile rather than turning on in Windows XP Tablet no matter what it was doing when it hybernated or shut down. (I think I just figured out what the Windows XP side does with it's share of the Flash ROM. It probably hybernates to Flash.) At any rate, there are a myriad of reasons why it should do this, many having to do with power savings.
If this is the case, then you can either use Windows Mobile's built-in password protection (with the strong-alphameric key, of course) or get one of the aftermarket improved password protection programs. There's even one that shows the picture of your choice where the password consists of clicking in the right locations in the right sequence.
