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- Boot the router and interrupt the boot sequence by performing a break (CTRL+BREAK), which will take the router into ROM monitor mode
- Change the configuration register to turn on bit 6 (confreg 0x2142)
- Reload the router (reset)
- Enter privileged mode (answer "no" to entering setup mode, press ENTER to go into user mode, type enable to go into privileged mode)
- Copy the startup-config file to running-config (copy start run)
- Change the password (conf t, user admin secret <newpassword>, enable secret <newpassword>)
- Reset the configuration register to the default value (config-register 0x2102)
- Save the router configuration (copy run start)
- Reload the router (reload)