My cisco 4503 keeps losing it's configuration file.. any ideas why this is happening? thx.

Need help to recover the forgotten password of your Cisco router? The following guide will help you restore the password without losing your router configuration. To retrieve the password, you will require rebooting your router many times. It means stoppage, but it is the best step to reset the password. At first, you need to connect the first end of the standard light blue cable to the power port and the other end to the 'Console' port on the back of your router. After connecting the devices, you need to make a serial connection to the router. For that, you need the following settings:

Baud: 9600
Parity: No
Data bits: 8
Stop bits: 1
Flow Control: None

To recover the Cisco router password, check the following steps:-

1.Restart your Cisco router and press the 'Break' key to conflict the boot order. Input config 0x2142. It conveys the router to avoid NVRAM in the boot process. It won't load your current configuration.

2.Enter reset to restart your router. When asked to run the setup process, choose 'No.' Enter 'Copy Start, Run.' It loads the beginning setup into memory.

3.Now, if you enter the 'Show Run Config,' it will show you the router settings. Also, you should consider that the router name is in the prompt rather than the default 'Router.'

4.Type the 'enable secret new password' to change the enabled secret, and then enter the 'config-register 0x2102' to modify the registry settings back to 0x2102.

5.Once your router restarts, it will load the old settings along with the new password. Now, you need to save it so that it will continue during restarts.

6.Enter copy run start. Type Reload at the prompt to reboot the Cisco router.

Now, note down the password to keep them safe. However, if the steps as given above fail to recover the Cisco router password without losing the configuration or you need the help of experts, you can call on the genuine Cisco customer care number listed on the Contactforhelp to get the direct support of experts for recovering the password quickly.

When performing the factory reset procedure we are about to describe, it is important to keep in mind that the IP phone will lose all configuration files and phone applications. This means that it is necessary to have CallManager or CallManager Express setup so that the IP phone will be able to receive the new information (phone application and configuration) after the reset procedure is complete, otherwise it is most likely that the IP phone will not be usable until this information is loaded on to it.
This preparation also happens to be the procedure for upgrading a Cisco IP phone firmware.



Follow the steps below to successfully factory reset your Cisco 7942, 7962 IP phone:

1. Unplug the power cable from the phone and then plug it back in. The phone begins its power up cycle.
2. While the phone is powering up, and before the Speaker button flashes on and off, press and hold #. Continue to hold # until each line button flashes on and off in sequence in amber.
3. Release # and press 123456789*0#.

You can press a key twice in a row, but if you press the keys out of sequence, the factory reset will not take place.
After you press these keys, the line buttons on the phone flash red and the phone goes through the factory reset process.
Do not power down the phone until it completes the factory reset process and the main screen appears.

Configuration? What type of configuration / settings would you like to know? Anyhow , just use the link below and it will redirect you to the page of your Cisco Service Manual, where you can see the complete image instruction /setup / configuration of your cisco wap4410N

http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/wireless/access_point/csbap/wap4410n/administration/guide/WAP4410N_Admin_Guide.pdf

I am sorry , for the answer that I provided . Since I dont have an idea for the configuration that you needed much better if your going to use the link that provided because its very helpful thanks

According to Cisco, when initiating a factory reset procedure certain information from the IP phone is erased while other information is reset to the factory default value, as shown in the list below:


Information Erased:

• CTL File (Certificate Trust List)
• LSC File (Locally Significant Certificate)
• IP Phone Call History (Calls Received, Placed, Missed etc)
• Phone application

Information Reset to Default:

• User configuration settings (ring tone, screen brightness, sound levels etc)
• Network configuration settings

t is highly advisable to follow the firmware upgrade procedure in a non-working environment to ensure other phones are not affected (in case of an accidental reboot), and to avoid the freshly factory reset ip phones obtaining the working environment's settings.


Please use the link below and follow the instruction http://www.firewall.cx/downloads/cisco-tools-a-applications/cisco-ip-phone-a-ata-firmware-downloads.html

Hello,
if you are talking about your enable password you will have 2 choices which are a factory reset or evoke ROMMON. The simplest way is to backup your running config via TFTP or do a #show run and copy and paste the whole config to a txt file and then reset to factory default and then just load(or paste) that config and then do a #copy run start.

if you issue the command show version
At the bottom written in bold you should the config register settings these nee to be as shown at the bottom of this page


R1#show version
Cisco Internetwork Operating System Software
IOS (tm) 2500 Software (C2500-JS-L), Version 12.1(3), RELEASE SOFTWARE (fc1)
Copyright (c) 1986-2000 by cisco Systems, Inc.
Compiled Thu 06-Jul-00 10:02 by cmong
Image text-base: 0x0306F914, data-base: 0x00001000

ROM: System Bootstrap, Version 11.0(10c), SOFTWARE
BOOTFLASH: 3000 Bootstrap Software (IGS-BOOT-R), Version 11.0(10c), RELEASE SOFT
WARE (fc1)

R1 uptime is 1 day, 5 hours, 39 minutes
System returned to ROM by power-on
System image file is "flash:c2500-js-l.121-3"

cisco 2500 (68030) processor (revision N) with 14336K/2048K bytes of memory.
Processor board ID 11844920, with hardware revision 00000001
Bridging software.
X.25 software, Version 3.0.0.
SuperLAT software (copyright 1990 by Meridian Technology Corp).
TN3270 Emulation software.
Basic Rate ISDN software, Version 1.1.
1 Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 interface(s)
2 Serial network interface(s)
1 ISDN Basic Rate interface(s)
32K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.
16384K bytes of processor board System flash (Read ONLY)

Configuration register is 0x2102

if yours differs the use the these commands to correct it


R1>en
R1#conf t
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
R1(config)#config 0x2102
R1(config)#^Z
R1#


Hope this helps

try to update the Firmware of the router. You can do this by opening the Cisco Connect Software under all programs. It should ask for an update when it initializes, if not then power cycle your network.

If you have the password logon and type wr erase and reboot.

 

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps607/products_tech_note09186a00800c4546.shtml

 

 

How to set a Cisco IP phone to factory default Reset configuration of Cisco IP Phone (7910, 1911, 7940, 7941, 7960, 7961)

To set the Cisco IP phone to factory default completes the following steps: should be completed:

For 7940, 7941, 7960, 7961 phones:

1. Power up the phone (unplug power cable and plug in again and hold the # key.
2. Release # when lights start flashing.
3. Press 123456789*0#.
4. Press 1 to keep network configuration or 2 to lose the network configuration.

For 7906G and 7911G phones:
1. Power up the phone (unplug power cable and plug in again and hold the # key.
2. Release # when MWI starts flashing.
3. Press 3491672850*#.