Forgotten Firmware password protection And no OS on hard drive

I really need to know how to get it off. My hardware has been wipped and there is absolutly nothing on it. And i need to take Firmware password protection off in order to install anything onto it.

See this link for resetting an open firmware password:
http://www.macforensicslab.com/ProductsAndServices/index.php?mainpage=document_general_info&productsid=69&zenid=74f4076fb96074db45dc274f7de86bc6

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I can't access password protection manager on my External Hard Drive to unlock it , I got updated antivirus and I always use safely remove to remove the hard drive. I see the UNLOCK APP Drive, and the Public Area, but when I run the "Password Protection Manager.exe" file at UNLOCK APP Drive, the bar will just be fulfilled by approximately 60% by showing "Loading...", then it stops for many seconds, and it starts to run the Installation file (PasswordProtectionManagerSetup_F.exe) which will delete all unlocked files if I accept it to install.
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No, you were right, I just misunderstood. Technically it's called single-user mode. But, you were right.
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Since it seems that there might not be an answer directly related to your topic you could maybe give this a try.
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I have a G4 Digital Audio. Since i installed a 1,7GHz procesor upgrade (Sonnet Encore) and had to apply a patch to the firmware it seems that open firmware password protection is enabled. Now i'm in trouble as i can't start up from a selected disk (i didn't consider it's on a > 128 GByte partition) and as i don't know the password (i haven't enabled it) i can't use the option key, so i can't startup the computer from any disk. Reading this: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106482 i realized about the password protection and that there may be a way to bypass it having fisical access to the computer. Any hint what i can try to start up my computer again?

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/sbin/SystemStarter 
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reboot
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mrak wrote:
hi,
if you try to run,
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Thanks for detailing your solution Mac Campbell.
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