My brothers school laptop
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yeah im hoping that with the mcube and the system idle i can make it quiet than this dam nine hundred i have at the moment. and hopefully my chip will be a good clocker im hoping for a 4.5Ghz OC, the coolings deffinately there so its down to the chip....fingers crossed
just waiting for some one to get bitspower 45 degree dual rotary bits in stock then i can actually start to build this thing
just waiting for some one to get bitspower 45 degree dual rotary bits in stock then i can actually start to build this thing
Soldato
i honestly see no harm in what you're doing. ok it's against the rules, but you're learning new skills, which is the whole point of going to school. the school should recognise what you're doing and reward you imo, maybe let you spend a day with the i.t depertment or something.
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Soldato
His brothers not learning anything though
i don't see the problem with that though. his brother gains from using a newer os so may learn new skills from that. the op isn't hacking into the schools servers and messing them up resulting in lots of money lost, he's learning how to get around a problem
lol Yeah it is HIS laptop too and there was only his domain and an ICT one (obviously). His friend changed his to admin before but they cought on and locked the new ones down. I'm going to copy his friends .bat files for the schools network. I have installed everything that was on it like OpenOffice etc. It was locked so bad he couldn't even use a LAN cable to use our home wired internet. I've told him to keep his mouth shut about it
We'll wait and see if he gets suspended. Fingers crossed.
We'll wait and see if he gets suspended. Fingers crossed.
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Soldato
I would have made a disk image beforehand so that i could restore the laptop back to how it was with minimum effort, if needed.
Good idea but not possible with a locked down limited account.
Easily possible. Boot from an ubuntu cd or usb stick, image the drive onto another usb stick/hard drive/over a network.
I think this was a bad thing to do. The school wont be impressed and your brother will take the fall for it. The argument that you're learning is all well and good, but it should at least be your neck on the line.
I think this was a bad thing to do. The school wont be impressed and your brother will take the fall for it. The argument that you're learning is all well and good, but it should at least be your neck on the line.
I can't boot from anything with a locked bios. I am taking responsibility for this and life isn't worth living without taking risks. The worst that can happen is all my efforts are in vain and they install their image of XP back on. Btw Jon do you work nights, you seem to be up in the twilight hours all the time.
Soldato
As an ex IT Technician for a secondary school I completely agree.
Hope you get raped.*
*Not in the bottom.
Lol bring it on I'll be waiting with a gun and a packet of banana sandwhiches.
Soldato
I've not come across a locked bios before. Out of interest, when you managed to bypass the bios password, were the options for boot order not present? Also how did you install Win7?
The school lock/passworded it. I had to bypass the Windows XP password first to install Asus's update bios program. I erased the bios and updated it with the latest one to reset it. In bypassing XP it resetted it all to factory defaults so no point backing it up.
If all fails I will give him my own laptop for school.
If all fails I will give him my own laptop for school.
Soldato
Got you. Thanks for the reply 
It's not wrong it's just naughty.
Flashing to a new bios to deal with the password was cunning, credit to you for that. I don't like flashing from windows so wouldn't have thought of this.
However you don't have to rest windows to stock settings to remove a password. There's a cd called hirins which will do this along with many, many other things. No manual though. Failing that I think I found a 12mb iso which peacefully removes windows passwords when you boot from it. Of course if you had to reset things before flashing the bios this might not be an option.
Curious as to why you didn't take the hard drive out, image it using another computer, then put it back in?
However you don't have to rest windows to stock settings to remove a password. There's a cd called hirins which will do this along with many, many other things. No manual though. Failing that I think I found a 12mb iso which peacefully removes windows passwords when you boot from it. Of course if you had to reset things before flashing the bios this might not be an option.
Curious as to why you didn't take the hard drive out, image it using another computer, then put it back in?
Haha thanks The Asus update utility actually reboots to POST to install the bios, so not from Windows itself. To be honest I never really thought of imaging it (stupid). Also this 904 Laptop has different connections so can't really connect to image it. These laptops have been given out to over 200 year 7 pupils as a new learning scheme. I'm not sure if they repair/checkup on the laptops but if they do they're in for a suprise, and I'm in for a spanking! 
Find out on Monday hehe.
The Asus update utility actually reboots to POST to install the bios, so not from Windows itself. To be honest I never really thought of imaging it (stupid). Also this 904 Laptop has different connections so can't really connect to image it. These laptops have been given out to over 200 year 7 pupils as a new learning scheme. I'm not sure if they repair/checkup on the laptops but if they do they're in for a suprise, and I'm in for a spanking! Find out on Monday hehe.
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and I'm in for a spanking!
unfortunately i think you will be, can't see other year 7 pupils not noticing your brothers is different and then keeping their mouth shut. best bet is to plead ignorance, say it wasn't working correctly so you restarted and followed a guide online to "fix" it, simple mistake wont happen again etc.