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Clear BIOS Password on Dell Lattitude CPi

  • 08-07-2003 1:58pm
    #1
    SouperComputer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,949 ✭✭✭


    I havent stripped it myself yet, but apparently its a bit more invloved then just shorting two lumps of solder or pulling out a battery.

    Its looking for an admin password, anyone have experience of reseting this?


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  • #2
    Carnate
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 379 ✭✭Carnate


    Try this link.


    http://www.labmice.net/articles/BIOS_hack.htm


  • #3
    Occidental
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,315 ✭✭✭Occidental


    Had to do one last year, by shorting a chip on the main board. From what I'd written down at the time it was a chip marked 24C02 and the second pair of pins (top and bottom) in from the right had to be shorted while initially powering on the unit.


  • #4
    Villain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,951 ✭✭✭✭Villain


    Resetting the jumpers on the motherboard normally does, if you can boot from floppy you may be able to use a program to do it.

    Hope its not stolen!!!


  • #5
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Not sure which notebooks it applied to but most around that time have a master PW based on the TAG on the back. - Another range around the time of that one had a nasty problem - if you screwed up the password recovery there was no back door - MB would then be scrap and you are well out of warranty so no comeback.

    AFAIK it is based on FLASH memory so messing with batteries probably won't help.

    A serious gotcha - so unless you need to don't mess. eg: at home there is a 133MHz lattitude - the user has full access in the BIOS so I ain't messing with the Admin PW (which I don't need)


  • #6
    Gerry
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    I got hp to reset my password last week, and I bought it second hand. It was just the admin password for changing bios settings which I had forgotten. Presumably dell will do the same for you, unless the laptop is stolen....


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  • #7
    Emboss
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    dell require to you fax proof of purchase


  • #8
    SouperComputer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,949 ✭✭✭SouperComputer


    thanks for the help guys.

    nah, not stolen AFAIK. Dropped into work before I started here, hoping I could sort it out.

    Its a PII machine:

    Model no: PPX, lattidude Cpi R Series?

    Anyone with specific experience of this model?


  • #9
    yellum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,025 ✭✭✭yellum


    Ring 1850 543 543 and talk to Dell. Fax them some details then and they'll give you the master password.


  • #10
    SouperComputer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,949 ✭✭✭SouperComputer


    kewl, ill do that so, would prefer to know how but howandever!


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