password recovery on Cisco 851

[Sergey Sakharov]

Hi!

I'm new in a company, previous technician forgot secret on Cisco 851, so i've tried to recover it today. I've connected to serial with PuTTy, turned of router for 10 seconds, turned on, then i pressed break for 20-30 seconds. I couldn't get to ROMMON. I've tried Windows Hyppertrminal, i've tried Ctrl+break - nothing. Cisco didn't receive my break command. Why was that?

Thanks

[davbarre]

Hi Sergev,

You are currently posting in the Small Business section.  The router you have would be considered and Enterprise device.

Please post your question in this section:

https://supportforums.cisco.com/community/netpro/network-infrastructure

Thanks!

Dave

[Leo Laohoo]

Double post.