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Not sure! However, it's possible the coin cell that keeps the BIOS settings was removed or dead. This forces the BIOS into default configuration on boot, which may have caused a boot failure if you needed some specific hardware configuration set in BIOS.
Maybe they used it as a way to control computer access, but it seems more likely that they just didn't get around to replacing the coin cell :D
My mom would have to come in and put a password into the BIOS to boot up when I got in trouble when I was younger.
I was also punished by being made to go play outside with the neighborhood kids lol.
They wouldn't stop me from reading, and if they grounded me I'd just be like whatever, I have three new books from the library lol.
That sounds... very familiar. I got through an alarming number of books in childhood through similar mechanisms.