Dell BIOS Password Removal

You used a Camcorder ??? Wow I never thought of that, and here's me straining my eyesight lookin for it.

Just to clear the confusion, you dont use the software to clear the Service tag, you use the file Asset.com on the disk to set it using the command

asset /s tag , on mine the tag is #8G1T90J-595B,

So I enter asset /s 8G1T90J press enter, to access the program asset.com from the DST floppy let it run the software then when asked if you want to reset the tag choose "No" and let the floppy reset program run it's course, you will then come back to the command prompt A:\, at this point type the command as shown above.

Good luck in your efforts and remember that feedback is essential for this thread.

This is very easy to fix
no need to soldewr anything, just remove thee coin battery on the mother bard and restart with the batteryh out once. it will remove all thee passewords for bios and take it to defaults, no passwaord
Then insert thee battery in and restart adn go to bios , this will fix the issue for sure
Dell wont help untillu can verify the owner inforrmatioin as it i passowrd issue, I had the same problem

Hi, i'm certain you mean well, but.....

Oh do I really need to say it.........???

Some times I wish I had Mod powers and make post's like this disappear.

Maybe on Dell PCs, but not on most Dell laptops. The L400 is the only one I know of that can be cleared by disconnecting the CMOS Battery over night. For that method to work, the Passwords need to be stored on the BIOS chip, and that is not the case with most Dell Laptops; instead they are stored on a separate EEProm Chip in its built-in NVRAM and disconnecting the CMOS Battery will have no effect on them. Your suggestion is well-meant, but wrong.

Is the chip normally located on the top of the motherboard or on the bottom? The diagrams don't show specifics for my model and i've been looking at can't locate it. Any help would be awesome.

Dell Latitude D810

did the short on the eeprom.worked fine.The bug is located exactly under the metal plate from the right.Email me at email removed for more details.No need for software or anything else.Just short it and then make 3 restarts.For details please contact me.

It is on the bottom side near the RAM slots. I tried to attach a picture of the location, but no go. It is a 24LC04; there is also a 93C46 but that is for a different usage, probably a LAN Card.

Nope you dont need the software your right, thing is your BIOS may show "no passwords can be set as no service tag installed", in which case you need the ASSET.COM program to set the service tag, as until you do you can't set any passwords on the machine.

Also the software is used for people who have access to the machine, but just can't remember , or just don't know the BIOS passwords and want to clear them.

Dell is the Devil

I just bought a older dell latitude c600 from ebay to find that it has a pass word on the hard drive to i can not use ( really Pissin me off ) i have tryed to boot from a cd with a password program atapwd and it cant see that the hard drive is there and yeah the bois say umm no password no use any one have any ideas on what i can do before i use it for a coaster ........ I have called tell to find if they can help and they told me to call the the company that makes the the drive so i did (toshiba) and they told me to call dell so yeah lil mad here any help would be great

Ken

Ken, the only way I know of costs $49.50 and unless that HDD is a large fast one, it is not worth the expenditure. These 2 sites have 5400 and 7200rpm drives which will work fine up to at least 60gb with late BIOS Versions on your model, and at the lowest prices around. They have a 20gb Hitachi for about $60 shipped. Just replace the drive with a new one and be thankful you did not buy one With a Primary BIOS Password.
www.newegg.com and www.zipzoomfly.com

Why? lets face it, your site is old hat and soon to be defunct once I post the PDF that you sell at a price.

So he has feedback, people always leave positive feedback regardless as they dont want negative feedback left for them.

The point I am trying to make is this...

In this thread we try as best as possible (hence the site and the software) to give advice and help for FREE, all you do is point people to a site where a manual is sold for a price,

This is my main beef with you, I have looked through all your posts and not once do you offer any help other than to direct a poster to the dellpass site.

You may as well not bother to post as all you are doing is promoting a pay-for service and i'm certain that this forum does not allow that sort of behaviour as it is classed as free advertising,

Lastly I found a site, mentioned earlier in one of my posts ,that was around before your mate Dellpass with the same info on it, wonder who was there first, On that basis I will be posting the manual as I feel that if he can tout and sell a manual that he has plagerised from another site , then I can give it away for free.

I agree, most people are looking for free method of removing password.
Plainkey should be banned or at least his posts should be deleted.
When I was looking for free method of removing / clearing my password. I found this spammers links all over the net for the pay for service site.

"I just promote this guy because he does a real good job and sell no bull****. " lol what a load of bull

Just to let you know.

The matter is under consideration.

Edit: We will be keeping a close eye on this thread.

Regards Howard

Thanks Howard, Nice to see you visiting our little corner again.

In addition, for some lucky men, I can get the master password which can be use for unlock primary, admin or HDD password.
Just for #8G1T90J-595B, master password is 4Y07YTIA, note 07 is zero7.
To clear admin password, firstly set primary password and after reboot type master password and instead <ENTER> press ctrl+ENTER.

Well I'll be blowed. A way past the 595B password now read this...

I locked my machine so it has the grey screen on bootup, and entered the password given above, and yes it worked, it cleared the grey screen and booted windows XP.

Please tell us how because of this works for all then we can stop shorting the EEPROM at last !!!!!!!,

I also tried the bit about clearing the admin password and yes that works as well,
I set the primary password as "Password" and set the admin as "password" I then rebooted the Laptop, I entered the password as 4y07ytia and pressed CTRL and Enter at first it seemed that nothing was happening but then I got access to the BIOS and ...

The passwords were all cleared.......

However I didn't get a success with the HD but I figure that must be a differrent password.....

Please dont keep this to your self , it is very important to all that read this thread, Please run a website with the software or method as I did, I can close my site down then and step away from this thread, after nearly 5 months it would be a welcome break, and Paragon can finally retire and put his screwdrivers away :haha:

for HDD master password you should to get me another string, instead service tag 7 chars, it must be HDD serial number 11 chars followed by -595B or -D35B. That string displayed if you have HDD password installed.
I have a possibility to get a master passwords and I can control this. Just for fun for me to write such utility but I dont want make it free, because every thief or joker may open your notebook and view all your secrets.

Well just promise us that you wont make it a pay service, also post details where you can be contacted, we really need to try this out on a multitude of laptops, paragon333 has access to many perhaps speaking to him direct via email will enable us to see if you have a goldmine so to speak.

keep us informed

I'm not interested to create a pay service, money is forever trouble.
But the service always must be paid, let it be stories' payment .
Each owner of passworded notebook should share the brief story about himself and the way of getting trouble with this password, no real name, just for impression.
If the story will be good enough (or quite piteous ), I'll give him the master password via the private message, as soon as I'll appear again.