dell inspiron e1505

[JD Austin]

Yes - I hate waiting though unless it is one of those machines you have to
take apart to get to the ram (compact)  :)

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 17:44, Eric Cope <eric.cope at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
>
>
>    1. Power it off
>    2. unplug it
>    3. Open the case
>    4. Remove the CMOS battery (be careful)
>    5. Remove the Ram
>    6. Reinstall the Ram
>    7. Reinstall the CMOS battery
>    8. 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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