I needed couple of odysseys, and they are in very tight supply right now so I bought those SenseCap M4 square boxes in a hope to just resflash the ssd with Linux of my choice.
To my surprise the BIOS is hard passworded.
What is that password, how to go around it?
Maciej
I will link this post to my contacts at Seeed and see what happens
Resetting the CMOS (Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor) can sometimes clear the BIOS password. You can Locate the CMOS battery on the motherboard.
Remove the battery for about 5–10 minutes to reset the BIOS.
Reinstall the battery and power on the device.
Left it overnight without battery , no luck
i sent a message to seeed they on vacation for 3 days (not sure when it started)
Any reply, I have a useless product infront of me and I need to to put normal linux on it, it looks like the bios chip is replaceable is that a solution?
Maciej
it is very g
hard to get good information from seeed on things like this because of the time difference and different new years and religions and languages… and what-not… i asked again
Hi, Can you send an email to [email protected]
the BIOS is encrypted, please send the email, and I will ask the team to share the next step to log in the BIOS. hope that will help.
Hi Maciej,
same issue here , did u come right with the BIOS password?
please send e-mail to [email protected]
Thanks it worked out …BIG THANK YOU mate…, some admin removed your reply with the password. It is fascinating that a person buys a product like the M4 but you DO NOT really OWN the device because Seeed does not want to share the BIOS password with the end user , so its ok for an end user to sit with a device that they cant use and catches dust in the cupboard(bricked)
Hi there,
So I’m confused, Did you get what you needed? “The device Bios Password” I don’t believe they don’t want to share it. I would agree with @cgwaltney there must be a communication breakdown, they are very responsive to legit Q’s and if it’s open source then it would be available in the wild perhaps. So you started by looking for an Alternative to the odysseys, Did it work out as a sub or NOT? it is a very new Item so there is still some info coming in for it as users get them. Looks to me to be pretty stout hardware, can I ask what the use case is? , what is the application?
GL 
PJ 