Forgot secret password: 1)Turn off router physically bc reload won't work in user mode 2)Turn on router and

then quickly break the sequence by putting Ctrl+Break on th e keyboard. 3)rommon 1> //so now in rom monitor mode 4)rommon 1> confreg 0x2142 //configure reg 0x2142 5)rommon 1> reset //must reset or power cycle for new config to take effect 6)from 0x2102 to 0x2142 telling it to bypass the startup config the NVRam 7)Would you like to enter the initial configuration dialog? no //asking bc I don 't have a conf 8)Enter//so now on an empty router with no configuration 9)Router>en 10)Router#show startup-config //there is your start up configuration and encrypt ed secret password, so still on nvram 11)q to break that 12)copy startup-config running-config //copy startup config to running config 13)so changes router name 14)routera#show run // the configuration has that password 15)routera#config t //if type exit then have to start all over so 16)routera(config)#enable secret password//then exit 17)routera#copy run startup//copy running config to the startup config 18)routera#show run//so on top could see the secret password and new one is diff erent even if encrypted 19)routera#//if reboots then skip nvram and not load the configuration; but want it to load the start up config saved; so have to set registry back to what it u sed to be 20)routera#config t 21)routera(config)#config-register 0x2102 //then exit 22)routera#copy run start //to make sure good password is saved 23)routera#show ver//then shows at the end that the conf reg is 0x2142 but will be 0x2102 at next reload so need to reload the. The default registry is 0x2102; In 0x2142, the 4 will identify your router to ignore the configuration.