>From looking at some forums, there's a few suggestions I've seen. One is to
short the chip (which this person doesn't want to do b/c it's not theirs),
the other is to replace the mobo. There's a $90 piece of software they were
looking at having to purchase if all other avenues fell short which
guarantees success. There's also an executable that works, but only works
with latitudes, not inspirons (probably a different service tag
combination).
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Petri Laihonen <pietu@weblizards.net>
wrote:
> Bart Pittari wrote:
> > A friend I know is trying to do some tech support for a laptop (dell
> > inspiron 640m) and it's got a BIOS password. The owner of the laptop
> > inherited the system and doesn't know the password. The previous
> > owner is unavailable. Dell support has been less than helpful,
> > including the Change of Ownership route.
> >
> > From looking at the support forums, there are cracks available for
> > latitudes based on the service tag number, but none I could find for
> > inspirons.
> >
> > Any workarounds or suggestions? I have the service tag if needed.
> >
> > Bart
> This could be very tricky. On a desktop machine it would be easy just to
> connect the bios reset jumper and that's it
> (Old times to remove the bios battery for a while)
>
> With laptop I assume similar process would work, but is definitely going
> to be a bit more challenging.
>
> I do not know of any utility to do this. However with modern bioses,
> there may actually be one.
>
> Petri
> >
> >
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