dell inspiron e1505

[Eric Cope]

You should be able to leave the ram in, just wait 5min. DRAM will leak it's charge off pretty quickly, so waiting a minute or 5 should be more than enough. 

Eric

On Jan 19, 2012, at 5:37 PM, JD Austin <jd at twingeckos.com> wrote:

> Power it off
> unplug it
> Open the case
> Remove the CMOS battery (be careful)
> Remove the Ram
> Reinstall the Ram
> Reinstall the CMOS battery
> try again.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 17:31, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> One of my friends has a dell inspiron e1505 that needs to be fixed. I want to boot from the cd but it won't.
> I turn it on and get the dell screen and it tells me to enter F2 for setup or F12 for boot options. I want the boot options so I hit F12. Then it says it is Preparing for one time boot menu. Then I get a screen that says 
> 
>      This computer system, (serial number), is peotected by a password authentication system. You cannot 
>      access data on this computer without the correct password.
> 
>      Please type in the system or administator password and press <Enter>.
> 
> Then it gives me three attempts at a password and then powers off. And if I do nothing it powers of after about 30 seconds
> 
> Her password doesn't work.
> If I press F2 it says that it is preparing to enter setup and then it does the same thing as if I hit F12.
> If I do nothing it is as if I hit F2 or F12.
> Does anyone know of a backdoor into this computer or of a password that will work?
> -- 
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
> 
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