Hello.
I have been reading the forums quite alot recently and discovered that if you short together two pins on the EEPROM chip you can reset the settings and clear passwords from the BIOS.
I have been trying this method for quite some time with all the combinations of pins i can find but none seem to work, I have found the right chip using this picture.
download.centre4service.com/Lat640540insp4150.jpg
So I hope this is the right chip. :S
Any advice on how to proceed would be greatly welcomed, I know that when I short the two pins and boot the PC the service tag on my 'dell', hiss boo, should be wiped but nothing changes.
I'am beginning to suspect there is another deeper chip that stores this info aswell, possibly called NVRAM as I have heard it bounced around the forums before.
Thanks in advance
I have been reading the forums quite alot recently and discovered that if you short together two pins on the EEPROM chip you can reset the settings and clear passwords from the BIOS.
I have been trying this method for quite some time with all the combinations of pins i can find but none seem to work, I have found the right chip using this picture.
download.centre4service.com/Lat640540insp4150.jpg
So I hope this is the right chip. :S
Any advice on how to proceed would be greatly welcomed, I know that when I short the two pins and boot the PC the service tag on my 'dell', hiss boo, should be wiped but nothing changes.
I'am beginning to suspect there is another deeper chip that stores this info aswell, possibly called NVRAM as I have heard it bounced around the forums before.
Thanks in advance