3620 Boot Msg PASSWORD FUNCTIONALITY DISABLED

[jaas]

I am trying to clear the password on a 3620 and I get the above message right after the Bootrom counts the memory. I cant break into the ROMMON either. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Jeff Sanborn

[jamey]

You have password recovery disabled. On the 3620, it may not be possible to recover (I've read you need a minimum ROMMON 11.1(17)AA but you could try:

http://www.groupstudy.com/archives/ccielab/200112/msg00811.html

if that doesn't work, look at this thread:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=T_JY8.74140%24Wi.21493372%40twister.nyc.rr.com&rnum=3&prev=/groups%3Fq%3DPASSWORD%2BFUNCTIONALITY%2BDISABLED%2Bgroup:comp.dcom.sys.cisco%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%2...

[jaas]

Well I got it into ROMMON mode by rearanging the SIMMS. Once in ROMMON I go to confreg and tell it to ignore the config and it comes back with a statement like cannot change "ignore config enabled" I have changed the fash and the BOOTROM. Any ideas

Jeff Sanbron

[jamey]

Hmmm...I know that on some routers NVRAM is stored on the flash stick and other times it is stored on an EEPROM. If you replaced the FLASH, it looks like a 3620 probably has an EEPROM NVRAM (I can't verify this for sure, but just a guess).

The only I can think of to try is to use the XMODEM procedure from rommon mode and downgrade the IOS on the router to a version that doesn't understand the no service password-recovery command. I think this command was introduced in IOS version 12.x so maybe try downgrading to an 11.2 version of IOS. As I said I'm just throwing an idea out there.

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/130/xmodem_generic.html