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 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 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 . >> >> 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~(-: >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > -- > (602) 791-8002  Android > (623) 239-3392 Skype > (623) 688-3392 Google Voice > ** > HomeSmartInternational.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss