1. First of all connect to the console port, start terminal application, and power on the router.

When you see the boot process beginning, hit the Break sequence. (Break sequence is usually Ctrl+Page Break, but it might differ according to terminal applications.) Doing this interrupts the boot process and drops the router into ROMMON. 2. At the ROMMON prompt, enter the command confreg 0x2142 to set the configuration register to 0x2142. 3. Restart the router by power cycling it or by issuing the command reset. 4. When the router reloads, the configuration register setting of 0x2142 instructs the router to ignore the startup-config file in NVRAM. You will be asked if you want to go through Setup mode because the router thinks it has no startupconfiguration file. Exit from Setup mode. 5. Press Return and enable command enable to go into privileged EXEC command mode. No password is required because the startup config file was not loaded. 6. Load the configuration manually by entering copy startup-config runningconfig. 7. Go into the Global Configuration mode using the command configure terminal and change the password with the command enable password password or enable secret password. 8. Save the new password by entering copy running-config startup-config. 9. Go to the global config prompt, and change the configuration register back to the default setting with the command config-register 0x2102. Exit back to the privileged exec prompt. 10. Reboot the router using the reload command. You will be asked to save your changes; you can do so if you have made additional configuration changes.

Reset password on 1841

System Bootstrap, Version 12.3(8r)T8, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1) Cisco 1841 (revision 5.0) with 114688K/16384K bytes of memory. Self decompressing the image : ################

monitor: command "boot" aborted due to user interrupt rommon 1 > confreg 0x2142 rommon 2 > reset System Bootstrap, Version 12.3(8r)T8, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1) Cisco 1841 (revision 5.0) with 114688K/16384K bytes of memory. Self decompressing the image : ##########################################################[OK] Cisco IOS Software, 1841 Software (C1841-ADVIPSERVICESK9-M), Version 12.4(15)T1, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc2) Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport Copyright (c) 1986-2007 by Cisco Systems, Inc. Compiled Wed 18-Jul-07 04:52 by pt_team Image text-base: 0x60080608, data-base: 0x6270CD50 Cisco 1841 (revision 5.0) with 114688K/16384K bytes of memory. Processor board ID FTX0947Z18E M860 processor: part number 0, mask 49 2 FastEthernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s) 191K bytes of NVRAM. 31360K bytes of ATA CompactFlash (Read/Write) Cisco IOS Software, 1841 Software (C1841-ADVIPSERVICESK9-M), Version 12.4(15)T1, RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc2) Technical Support: http://www.cisco.com/techsupport Copyright (c) 1986-2007 by Cisco Systems, Inc. Compiled Wed 18-Jul-07 04:52 by pt_team --- System Configuration Dialog --Continue with configuration dialog? [yes/no]: no Press RETURN to get started! Router>enable Router#copy startup-config running-config Destination filename [running-config]? 428 bytes copied in 0.416 secs (1028 bytes/sec) Router#configure terminal Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z. Router(config)#enable password ccnaanswers-khim.com Router(config)#enable secret ccnaanswers-khim.com Router(config)#config-register 0x2102 Router(config)#exit Router#copy running-config startup-config Destination filename [startup-config]? Building configuration... [OK] Router#reload Proceed with reload? [confirm]