I come 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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