Re: dell inspiron e1505

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?
>> --
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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