Re: [Nolug] resetting bios password on a laptop

From: Joey Kelly <joey_at_joeykelly.net>
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:52:33 -0500
Message-Id: <200804211752.38587.joey@joeykelly.net>

On Monday 21 April 2008 12:24:56 pm Bart Pittari wrote:
> >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).
>
>

Pay for software to reset the BIOS? That's nuts. Surely there's a jumper
combination that will do the trick. I did a Dimension or somesuch last month.
Google was my friend.

-- 
Joey Kelly
< Minister of the Gospel | Linux Consultant >
http://joeykelly.net

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