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Products => Computers => Programming => Topic started by: msuffidy on December 13, 2022, 08:12:16 am
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I found a Dell computer in a dumpster today, and although it is sort of a nostalgic lga775 experience, it is likely pretty useless. I managed to boot it into the windows 10 that the user had and there was no password. At the same time I downloaded a dos or windows flasher from dell from like 2017. I took a big gulp in terms of how it was even possible, but I ran the exe files form a command prompt as administrator. So I was wondering how is this even possible since applications really just talk to the API and have protected environments? I used something called inpout32 that I think made a kernel mode forwarder for hardware access, but you had to install the driver for it to work. So how can the program flash access the bios chip or ports? It did seem to work and verify.