PIX 520 with 5.1(4) OS enable password recovery

Oct 07, 2006 3 Replies
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Hi,



I bought a PIX 520 @ ebay, however, I could not do a password recovery using a floppy as described @

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I start the PIX with the floppy (which I created with rawrite.exe and np51.bin): I get the following message:



Finesse Bios V3.3



Booting Floppy



...................................Execing flop



Also, it does not takes the Esc or Ctrl + Break to get to the monitor mode. I have tried with CRT version 3.4.6 and WINXP Hyper Terminal with 9600,



8, none, 1 setting.

I have copied and pasted startup screen and sh verion for your information:


Finesse Bios V3.3



Booting Floppy



Loading from Flash



128MB RAM Flash=AT29C040A @ 0x300 BIOS Flash=AM28F256 @ 0xfffd8000 mcwa i82558 Ethernet at irq 11 MAC: 0090.2710.49cf mcwa i82559 Ethernet at irq 10 MAC: 0090.27af.b59a


----------------------------------------------------------------------- || || || || |||| |||| ..:||||||:..:||||||:.. c i s c o S y s t e m s Private Internet eXchange


----------------------------------------------------------------------- Cisco Secure PIX Firewall



Cisco Secure PIX Firewall Version 5.1(4)



Licensed Features: Failover: Enabled VPN-DES: Enabled VPN-3DES: Enabled Maximum Interfaces: 6


****************************** Warning
******************************* Compliance with U.S. Export Laws and Regulations - Encryption. : : (removed line to save space) FARS sec. 252.227-7013.

Cisco Systems, Inc. 170 West Tasman Drive San Jose, California 95134-1706



Type help or '?' for a list of available commands.



sh ver

Cisco Secure PIX Firewall Version 5.1(4) Compiled on Mon 02-Oct-00 07:19 by morlee Finesse Bios V3.3


emma up 19 mins 14 secs



Hardware: SE440BX2, 128 MB RAM, CPU Pentium II 349 MHz Flash AT29C040A @ 0x300, 2MB BIOS Flash AM28F256 @ 0xfffd8000, 32KB


0: ethernet0: address is 0090.2710.49cf, irq 11
1: ethernet1: address is 0090.27af.b59a, irq 10

Licensed Features: Failover: Enabled VPN-DES: Enabled VPN-3DES: Enabled Maximum Interfaces: 6



Serial Number: 18020211 (0x112f773) Activation Key: 0x4d467e42 0x2bb81f00 0xf2f39bfe 0x4b977554




Can anyone point me in the right direction please?



Thanks,



Suhi



Hi Suhi,

You may wish to investigate Appliances with a Floppy Drive:

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Hope this helps.

Brad Reese BradReese.Com - Cisco eBay Repair Service

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Hendersonville Road, Suite 17 Asheville, North Carolina USA 28803 USA & Canada: 877-549-2680 International: 828-277-7272 Fax: 775-254-3558 AIM: R2MGrant BradReese.Com - Cisco Power Supply Headquarters
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Thanks Brad,

I will try to follow the steps when I have the necessary files. Unfortunately, I do not have access to CCO now. Will have to wait till....

Suhi

Hello All...

I am having the same exact problem... the password recovery boot floppy method isn't working fomr soem reason:

Finesse Bios V3.3

Booting Floppy

...................................Execing flop

then it reboots on it own and does it again...

Also, it does not take the Esc or Ctrl + Break to get to the monitor mode. I know the password floppy works as I was bale to use it on a identical PIX 520... does anyone have any ideas? Thanks,

xminer

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