: Hello! 
: I wonder if anyone here has ever come across the problem I'm having with my Gridcase 1520 laptop. I bought this machine from Electrified Discounters a few years ago as a refurbished unit. It worked fine until the internal clock/time/date battery died, and then it started demanding a password. The strange thing is, I NEVER used a password! 
: I did not get a startup disk with the 1520, and it has been running on regular MS Dos (not Gridcase DOS, which I also never had). After I soldered the new battery in, I was able to set the time and date. I could also access Drive A until I turned it off for the first time. After that, it started hollering for a password again. 
: Is there any way I can get a copy of the SETPASS file and run it in Drive A to get my laptop back on track again? I talked to the guy that services Gridcase computers at Electrified Discounters, and he didn't have a clue what to do. He just said that once a password command had locked him out, he had never found a way to get past it. 
: Any help would certainly be appreciated!
: 
: 
Go to ftp://ftp.ast.com/Grid/
Download the file Setpass.exe, on to a floppy. You can boot from the floppy by holding the "F" key down while turning on the laptop. 

Posted by Dale Johnson on February 25, 1998 at 22:29:18: 
In Reply to: GRiD 1520 Password Problem posted by Anita Louise McCormick on February 22, 1998 at 07:04:06: 
Get Wipedisk from AST site, and hit the "f" key a number of times just as the memory count ends--this should get you to the Adrive and then you could wipedisk, reload DOS & Windows.
Not sure what you should do if you have info on the HDD your trying to get back to...