On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Michael Havens <
bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
> I u didn'y and I to find out that they called dell about the problem and the techs
> told them it was the hard drive went belly up. ThAT IS an easy fix. At least
> it would have been if they gave me that information to start with! Well,
> there are two cables that run from the top half to the bottom half and as I
> was trying to take it apart I separated the two haves enough for the two
> cables to unplug (oops). I gave up trying to take it apart from fear of
> breaking the plastic.
>
> What do I have to do to take it apart? Now I have to do it to reconnect the
> two cables. I'm pretty sure that one is the keyboard cable but I don't know
> what the other is.
>
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Eric Cope <
eric.cope@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> If its in EPROM, the Hair-Brained idea is to drill a small hole in the
>> plastic, and expose the EPROM to intense UV light for a long period of
>> time. You might get it to erase the contents...
>>
>> I'd personally try Lisa's method first, but for the adventurous...
>>
>> Eric
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Lisa Kachold <
lisakachold@obnosis.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Someone has set a BIOS boot password.
>> >
>> > 1) Try the backdoor password Dell
>> >
>> > 2) Don't bother trying to open the case and pop out the little quarter
>> > sized
>> > bios battery and pop back in, which will reset SOME bios settings. The
>> > bios
>> > password is stored in EPROM chip on this model. On Inspiron e1505 you
>> > can't
>> > change the jumpers.
>> >
>> > 3) Call Dell
>> >
>> > The official method is to contact Dell Technical Support. Dell Technical
>> > Support will request the Service Tag and Express Service Code from the
>> > bottom of the Latitude. If the current user is not the original Latitude
>> > owner, Dell will transfer the registration from the original owner with
>> > only
>> > the Service Tag and Express Service Code from the tag on the laptop.
>> > Although I have also heard they will not do so unless you have the
>> > original
>> > owners name.
>> >
>> >
>> > 3.5) use a commercial bios password recovery tool.
>> >
>> > 4.0 ) Use the Hex method:
>> >
>> > : 1 - Create a windows boot system disk
>> > : 2 - Copy "debug" (this is a dos command found in windows\command
>> > directory) onto the system disk you created
>> > : 3 - Boot the machine with this disk
>> > : 4 - At dos prompt type: debug then enter, you will see a blinking dash
>> > : 5 - type: o 70 2e then enter, (also seen: o 70 18)
>> > : 6 - type: o 71 ff then enter,
>> > : 7 - type: q then enter,
>> > : 8 - remove the floppy and reboot! Power the system off and on by
>> > unplugging and re-plugging the system into the power outlet
>> >
>> > Good luck!
>> >
>> > Once you get into the BIOs you need to be able to specify BOOT order
>> > with CD
>> > first.
>> >
>> > If you press F12, you should get a list of boot evices, without making
>> > any
>> > changes. If the CD drive or CD media is schnerbed, it will not be
>> > displayed
>> > as an option. Try another CD, or verify your media in another drive.
>> > Often
>> > CDs that work in one system don't boot in another; be sure you burned it
>> > at
>> > the slowest speed. Be sure the light comes on at boot; be sure that you
>> > have a CD/DVD drive and/or CD/DVD to match.
>> >
>> > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 5:31 PM, Michael Havens <
bmike1@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?
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