Dell BIOS Password Removal

ahh the man himself, morning Paragon..

After posting the thread I did a read back through the posts and found the link supplied by another poster which I assume is your material, after much faffing around (that rapid share sucks) and changing my proxy server I managed to download the software , which I must say is so comprehensive that all I can say is wow, it covers so many different models and has so much info that anyone using it shouldn't have any problems unlocking a lappy with it.

My Owner,Asset and Service tag is now set and passwords can now be used.

Please ignore the email i sent as I am now fully working.

Thanks
Jud
PS is there any problem with holding the software on my website for others to get access to or would you prefer to be in control of who has it.

ahh the man himself, morning Paragon..

After posting the thread I did a read back through the posts and found the link supplied by another poster which I assume is your material, after much faffing around (that rapid share sucks) and changing my proxy server I managed to download the software , which I must say is so comprehensive that all I can say is wow, it covers so many different models and has so much info that anyone using it shouldn't have any problems unlocking a lappy with it.

My Owner,Asset and Service tag is now set and passwords can now be used.

Please ignore the email i sent as I am now fully working.

Thanks
Jud
PS is there any problem with holding the software on my website for others to get access to or would you prefer to be in control of who has it.
You may do with it as you wish, as except for the Additions file and the info files about the DST- and DST-CDR-ISO files, it was not mine to begin. I am 75 years old & uncertain of how long I will be around; I would hate to think there would not be someone to pass on what we have started in this thread.

hi all,

i have a dell latitude cpx
i have shorted the 24c02 chip on pins 3 and 6. i removed the short off the chip.
i got the manufactors screen, (with the hit fn + x). which ment it worked.
so thanks for all your help,

but i have now closed everything up and the laptop now switches on for like 5 seconds (the fan doesnt spin) and the power and hdd light is on for those 5 secs and then it switches off. when i got the manufacturers screen first it booted with a blenk screen with the lights on and the fan didnt spin, then after like 15 seconds it just kicked in and booted to the screen with the fan spinning and all was fine part from the delayed bootup. but i got the screen non the less, but i dont know whats happened now

i dont know why or what to do, please share any advice or solutions if you have any.

should i try shorting it again??
what can i do, i have found threads here (http://help.lockergnome.com/index.php?showtopic=28842&st=15)

that have had the same problem and left it for a few days and then it booted fine......

thanks in advance for any help you provide!!!

RSG
Contact me at email removed You need to run the DST floppy I can provide to delete and then rest your Service Tag to restore normal operation after the shorting procedure. You need to do that even if your laptop shows no Service Tag Installed from the shorting procedure. Fn+X does not always suffice to restore normal operation

Paragon33: thank you for the email, i have reset the service tag to the original and run the dst cdr iso that you provided.
so thats great, it is how ever still running in manufacturing mode, where by when i power the pc up, it still has a blank screen and the hdd spins but no system booting or fan spinning, and only after like 15-20 seconds the pc starts up and the system fan starts spinning and the pc boots to the manufacturing screen and continues to load to windows from the hdd.

i have tried pressing the fn+x to return it to a normal mode but it is not working.

any advice??

:wave: and once again thank you soo much for all your help and advice (and i speak on behalf of all the techspot members that you have helped) it is much appreciated and you are truely a genius in my books, i would not be able to do it without your help!!!!! :hotbounce

I have a CPX J 750GT (BIOS Ver A16) that I want to attempt to remove the password from. This is a 595B version so the Latitude_MasterPW.exe does not give the correct main password. Any suggestions?

I already know where the chip is and it 24C02WS (8 pins).

Hi,
You can download the software and instructions to reset the password from here
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/judslat/paragon

Regards

has any body got any idea where i can find the chip on a c810 ( i have been all over it ) or what the number on the chip should be

has any body got any idea where i can find the chip on a c810 ( i have been all over it ) or what the number on the chip should be
I can not send files or picture in here. The chip is under the edge of the Fixed Optical Drive Guide and accessible by removing the Keyboard(4 screws and the connector), the Power Switching board, and the Guide frame(2 clips and 3 screws) The chip will have a "24" in the type number, is 3x4mm in size with 8 connector pins

which legs do i need to short ? 3 & 6 ?

does anyone know how to get the dell cpx to run in normal mode again??????
i have run the dst cd iso and reset the tag to normal (what it was) but cant get it out of manufacturing mode, please help!!!!!!!!!

thanks in advance

Hi Paragon33,

I've been reading your posts and i hope
you may be able to help me.

I have a dell latitude d410 and my brother has set the
admin password in the bios. He has disabled the option
to boot from floppy, cdrom, usb storage devices. He's
in IT so he wanted to make it secure in case i got
mugged going to university but he now can't remember
what the password is.

I have contacted dell support but they said it's not
registered in my name so they can't help me. It must
be in someone elses name as i bought it off ebay.

My problem is that the windows registry has become
corrupt and i need to re-format the laptop but i can't
as i can't change the boot sequence to boot from cd as
the bios is protected with a password. My Dell tag
ends with -595b. I have seen you mentioning the Paper
Clip method as latitude.exe doesn't work for me.

Could you please help or send me the pdf file along with
anything you may think could help me,

thank you,

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Hey guys, could anyone help me with my d610 bios password protection?
i can view the bios but i cant change anything, i need the unlock key to unlock.

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This Actually Works! I have been pulling my hair out and tried suggestion after suggestion to no avail. If you have a Dell laptop and you need to get past the BIOS Admin Password, try this, Latitude_MasterPW.exe,The Master Password actually works, unlike most of the other suggestions I have tried. No need to get a new motherboard liike those Dell tech's say. I have my Latitude C600 up and running like a top now. Thank You, Thank You, Thank You Baldanders, you are a Savior.

If you got that Utility to work on your C600, you should post EXACTLY how you accomplished it, as most people simply swear at it instead of by it.

Paragon33 i have sent an email to any help would be much apprieciated

:)

If you have a Dell laptop and you need to get past the BIOS Admin Password, try this, Latitude_MasterPW.exe,.


Hi,
don't forget that Masterpassword genereator only works with certain Service tags, I know I had one ending in 595B and it wouldn't work at all and had to resort to the paperclip method (well a variation on it).

Glad to hear tho that you got your Lappy unlocked, I know the feeling when I finally got mine to work.

guys can u help! my dell cpx h500 gt, i cant get past the bios password even after putting in the same password as origanl.but with no avail. The service tag ends with -595B... What can i do????? :eek:

I am writing for a friend. She cannot get into her Dell laptop.

It gives her the gray screen.

etc. -
"Please type in the primary or administrator password and press enter".

Is this the BIOS password?

This is her Service Tag - 9IV44 for the CPI computer.

I hope we don't have to take it apart.

It was working and than she started getting this screen. We cannot get passed it.

Please help.

Hi, I also have an Inspiron 1150 and I have the very same problem as my other members on the forum. Is it possible to also get the disk that will reset the Tag. PLEASE!!!!?

The password I am looking for is not the XP administrator password. It is at the beginning of the boot up, before it gets that far.

Am I posting this in the right place?

Liz

This is very recent since I posted the original on the Techspots. Dell changed the EEProm Chip sometime after the Latitude C840/Inspiron 8200 clones from a 24C02 to a 24LC16B chip and the shorting trick does not work on it. It will get you through the grey screen, but it does not clear the chip to Manufacturing Mode FF and the software will not reset the Service Tag( although it says it has) After a reboot or two, back comes the grey screen again; I did this 5 times last night on an Inspiron 1150 with the same results. The software I have will not help you with this chip on the board. Sorry.
UPDATE!!
Since I originally posted this, I have found that this 24LC16B chip had to be shorted using a different set of Pins (4 & 6) instead of 3 & 6. It cleared as readily as the others I have done and the laptop was returned to the sender who was pleased with the results

How long did you short the pins for, atleast 10 sec?

Lizwool and aali,
You both need to contact me at email removed for the instructions/files and software. When you do, tell me your model number, do you have a floppy drive for it, and are you getting the infamous grey screen asking for a Password which blocks further progress?

How long did you short the pins for, atleast 10 sec?
aali, when you short the chip on this board, you must wait delay from1-7 seconds after turning it on before shorting. When you do short, if the board powers down, you were early. If it does not shut down when shorted, hold the short until you either get the Manufacturing Mode Screen or the grey screen comes up again. You are looking for a "Sweet Spot" where the boot is committed, but the grey screen process has not started. You will need to continue repeating the shorting at varying delay times until you hit that spot just right, and the chip will then clear to MM Screen. Pin Sets 4/6and 4/5 seem most productive; avoid shorting Pin 8-the upper left corner- as it is a voltage connector, and may ruin your board. 2-4 seconds seems the most common delay times reported. You will still need my DST software to run afterwards to restore your Service Tag and restore normal operation. Contact me at email removed

im trying to short out the required chip on the motherboard since i am having a similar problem with a password on a ebay laptop i bought. but i am not finding the place to short out anywhere on the motherboard. ive got a inspiron 2200 and i am having trouble removing the entire motherboard to get a look at the underside. anyone know where i need to look on this thing? thanks. by the way ive got a 595b tag if that helps.

im trying to short out the required chip on the motherboard since i am having a similar problem with a password on a ebay laptop i bought. but i am not finding the place to short out anywhere on the motherboard. ive got a inspiron 2200 and i am having trouble removing the entire motherboard to get a look at the underside. anyone know where i need to look on this thing? thanks. by the way ive got a 595b tag if that helps.
I have never seen a 2200, but lately Dell has been hiding the chips under hardware and the rubber insulating sheets under the hardware. The Chip is 3mmx4mm in size, has 8 connections and should have "24" in the Type Number stamped or etched into its surface(ex. 24U05, 24LC16B, 24LC256, KS24C04 are a few) There has been one very new addition- a 93LC46B and hopefully you do not have that puppy! The only one of those I tried was on a Inspiron 1000 and I could not crack it

ive taken apart and put back together my laptop for the second time now trying to find this chip but now i get this message before the gray password screen appears. "Invalid configuration information - please run Setup program" this appears right after the dell screen at the start. does this mean something bad?

It probably just means you need to enter F2 BIOS setup and reset your clock/Date and your personal choices for other settings like your boot order. Disassembly of some models disconnect the CMOS Battery; that resets BIOS defaults, but on Dells, it does not alter password settings which are stored on the EEProm Chip, not the BIOS chip

I've got a Dell Dimension 2400. I need to reset the BIOS password, but can't seem to get it to reset. Vigilante asked the same question on a 01-09-06 post, but I couldn't find a reply to his post. Does anyone have any info on reseting this password.

I tried using the jumper setting. All that did was reset the BIOS settings, but not the passwords. As did removing the CMOS battery over night.

I have had 2 people who have asked for my free files and software, and want me to apply for their approved Email list by filling out their forms, for the privilege of sending my files to them. Talk about Unmitigated gall and paranoia!! You will wait a long time before I cater to your whims; look for the stuff elsewhere because it will not be forthcoming from me. I am posting this in here, as your filter or whatever, will not take even a simple Email, let alone one with attachments

If you start your Dell Latitude and you can't get anywhere because a screen comes up saying enter Administrator Password than try this, Latitude_MasterPW.exe. Here is the link http://www.techspot.com/vb/attachment.php?attachmentid=1529 You get on another computer and put in the Service tag # off your laptop than press enter and it will give you a master password that will allow you to access your laptop BIOS. It will not erase the admin password, but it will give you a master password that will let you into the BIOS and even Windows (if already loaded). It may not work for you but if you have spent half as much time as I have trying to get past this password it is definately worth a try. I am by no means a computer tech and I got past the Admin. password and I was able to change the Boot sequence to read from CD ROM first, then I put in Windows 2000 and installed it. Now everything works normal but I still have to put in the master password everytime I re-start my laptop. I spent many hours online trying to find a way to get past the Admin. password and none of them worked because you have to access the floppy or CD ROM first, but this one worked for me and it only took about 10 minutes with no soldering or replacing parts. I have a Dell Latidude C600. By the way if anyone knows how I can now change that Admin password, Please let me know.

Paragon,

I sent you an e-mail with my model number. I get the grey screen that does not let me proceed. Any help you can provide is much appreciated.

Thanks
xMaDxPeNgUiNx

Thanks for the Posts. After glazing thru, I found the MasterPW.exe and it worked perfectly (once i figured you needed to enter the support code in CAPS.) I entered it all in lower case and got a completely different key.

My only hurdles now are reinstalling windows, and all that fun stuff, i'll have to figure out a way to externally mount a CD rom as the Latatude CP m233st doesn't have one installed (and i dont have an external, but i do have an internal spare and a USB external HD kit i can jimmy-rig). It has a floppy, and a USB. There is not even an ethernet jack, i'll have to fish out the good ol' pcmcia card!!!

The things we do for unsung glory!!!

Thanks Again,

JediKiah :cool:

Put your CDROM in the bay instead of the floppy. On any PC with a burner and running Roxio, you can make a Boot Disk Emulation of a W98 Boot disk that you will think made your CDROM into an A:\ Drive in DOS, has all the familiar DOS drive prep Tools, and when ready to Install W98SE, it will boot the CDROM-if you select Start your Computer with CDROM support-for another CD and then allow a hot swap to the W98SE CD to start your install. I still use floppy drives, but not for this purpose, and no external cables or coneections are required.
When you entered your Service Tag into Latitude_MasterPW, EXACTLY what did you type in, what did you type in for the Prompt at the grey screen and what keys did you press to start the ball rolling?

There should be a jumper in the dell's motherboard where you can be able to reset the CMOS, no need to take out the Battery. Resseting the CMOS let's you get inside again to the BIOS.

Also try to find if you can get acces to the TECHNICAL MANUAL or TECHNICAL REFERENCE MANUAL for that Dell laptop. Most of the times these companies spread these PDF documents for an economical charge but if you keep on looking sure that you will maybe find one free or copyright free.

1) Put your CDROM in the bay instead of the floppy.

2) When you entered your Service Tag into Latitude_MasterPW, EXACTLY what did you type in, what did you type in for the Prompt at the grey screen and what keys did you press to start the ball rolling?

Answer to #1) The cdrom i have is for a desktop, not a laptop so i cant swap it. It didnt come with a cd player, or docking station, or a modem either!

I do have a USB external HD enclosure i was gonna try to access the laptop by hooking up an internal full sized cd rom drive to the external HD enclosure. I tested this on a newer PC and it works. Then connect that thru the USB port on the back of the laptop. I found a few usb_cd for DOS apps out there, but none of them are working. I cant get the usb_cd DOS boot disks to work. i've tried editing the original bootdisk that came with the laptop to encorporate the usb_cd access into what was working, also with no luck.

Answer to #2) In MasterPW I typed the 5 digit Service Tag from the back of my laptop. The problem there was the first time I had entered it in lower case and it generated one #. I would enter in that result, and it would fail.

Thinking i had the wrong service tag sticker, i entered in the other sequences on alpha-numeric clusters i could find on the back. It wasn't long befort I discovered you cannot use more than 5 letters/numbers, and no characters either. Then it hit me, DUH, try using CAPS to enter the service tag, and The first attempt using CAPS worked fine.
(that part was ALL user error!!!<shrug> :unch: )

Once i can access the HD to reimage, i have win98 to put on, i'll need to find all the drivers for it.

Thanks again for your posts, they have made the learning curve for this task a lot easier, and FUN!!!

Regards,
JediKiah :cool:

There should be a jumper in the dell's motherboard where you can be able to reset the CMOS, no need to take out the Battery. Resseting the CMOS let's you get inside again to the BIOS.

Also try to find if you can get acces to the TECHNICAL MANUAL or TECHNICAL REFERENCE MANUAL for that Dell laptop. Most of the times these companies spread these PDF documents for an economical charge but if you keep on looking sure that you will maybe find one free or copyright free.
For about the dozenth time in this thread, THERE ARE NO JUMPERS ON A DELL LAPTOP!! PULLING the CMOS battery will only work on a LS and L400 to clear the Password; none of the other models are so blessed. Dell makes its manuals available by download for FREE!!. Stop posting this garbage; you only confuse people looking for answers.

The USB 2.0 External Floppies will only work with the later models after the C series Latitudes and contemporary Inspirons. USB 1.1 does not support DOS Booting. You need to get a Dell CDROM for the Modular Bay; any C-series Modular Bay CDROM will work. You can make a Bootable CDR Emulation of a W98 Boot Disk on a PC with a "burner" and Roxio EZ CD Creator. It will give you all the DOS Tools for Drive prep, then boot the CDROM and allow a hot swap in DOS for the W98 CD. It eliminates the need for a floppy for W98 installation; you will probably still need one for driver and utility Installations

Hello everyone,

I'm new here and had the same problem with a Dell Latitude D610 (our boss').

The main problem was that it was lost for more than a week, and then was found back again and brought back to us by two honest people (yes, such people still exist!).

However, we got to ask Dell support for both the admin password AND the disk password - which, after two days harrassing them, they actually DID. The admin pass the first day, the HDD pass the second day. So now, the computer is indeed unlocked. Entering the BIOS after having those passwords, I now see there's no admin password, however I had to set the disk password to blank.

There were no such password prompts before the loss, and the computer has not been tampered with (the data is still intact on it). Would this be due to the total battery discharge, which would have triggered the CMOS to set those passwords back or something?

Also noteworthy, the HD is a Toshiba on this laptop. As I have another laptop (an HP) here, I swapped disks: the Dell could boot on the disk (an IBM), but the HP couldn't boot on the Toshiba... I tried and booted the HP with a Knoppix CD, which couldn't read the disk at all: even reading the partition table triggered an I/O error... I think I hate the so-called "ATA security feature".

All the more that there is (was?) a HUGE BUG with HDD passwords and Dell BIOSes: when setting the HDD password, Dell BIOSes let you enter characters such as [, ], (, ), : and others which are ILLEGAL wrt that ATA security spec!

Hello all,


I'm new to this forum and I wanted to ask a question. Everybody seems to know alot of information about removing or resetting the password for the latitude series, but is there a sure fire way to reset the bios password for an Inspiron 1150 series?


Thank you in advance.

Hello all,


I'm new to this forum and I wanted to ask a question. Everybody seems to know alot of information about removing or resetting the password for the latitude series, but is there a sure fire way to reset the bios password for an Inspiron 1150 series?
Thank you in advance.
Been there, done that
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Hi there, i have a dell latitude D505, it has windows xp pro on it and i have full admin privaliges over windows, but i want to reinstall because i feel like starting from a clean slate, bit slow crashes a lot ect.., so i got out my windows xp pro cd and inserted it into he cd-rom drive, rebooted, but it wouldnt boot from the disk so i went into the bios to change the boot order but there is a stupid config password and i can't change the boot device order, it is permanently on "Internal Hard Disk" i haven't a clue what the password is and the person who gave me it hasn't a clue either, i rang dell and no luck they wont give me the PW plz help!!!

Hi there, i have a dell latitude D505, it has windows xp pro on it and i have full admin privaliges over windows, but i want to reinstall because i feel like starting from a clean slate, bit slow crashes a lot ect.., so i got out my windows xp pro cd and inserted it into he cd-rom drive, rebooted, but it wouldnt boot from the disk so i went into the bios to change the boot order but there is a stupid config password and i can't change the boot device order, it is permanently on "Internal Hard Disk" i haven't a clue what the password is and the person who gave me it hasn't a clue either, i rang dell and no luck they wont give me the PW plz help!!!


There ares 2 ways round this, if your lucky enough to have the right service tag you can use the master password generator to generate the master password with this you can to disable the config setting and change the boot order, your service tag must end in D35 if it ends in 595B this software wont work, from what I have read when using the software you must enter the tag exactly as it appears on the machine, case is sensitive.

If the software doesn't work then you will have to download Paragons tools and create a bootable Floppy/CDrom to reset the service tag,

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/judslat/paragon/

Good luck and let us know

I have tried that latitude.exe and Master_PW.exe but it doesn't work coz i have a 595b service tag, how am i supposed to boot from a floppy when i can't even change the boot order or enable any other boot device other than "Internal Hard Disk"?

I tried using the MasterPW.exe, but mu desktop won't run the program for some reason. If someone who can run it wants to do it for service tag FDYSI I would be super appreciative. Thank you.

Your Password is oyqy0i6

Ooops sorry i missed a K out!! oyqyk0i6

Ooops sorry i missed a K out!! the password is - oyqyk0i6

Thank you so much! It didn't work (I guess that the configure password is different than the admin password :() but thank you anyway. I guess I'll have to find another way around this.

I have tried that latitude.exe and Master_PW.exe but it doesn't work coz i have a 595b service tag, how am i supposed to boot from a floppy when i can't even change the boot order or enable any other boot device other than "Internal Hard Disk"?


If you remove the Hard disk it may force the laptop to boot from the CD rom, if not you will need to reset the EEPROM using the paper clip method, the instructions for doing so are at the website I gave in my last post

And to Josh8178 instead of multiple posting try just editing your post and putting a comment about the edit rather than post 3 times, the edit button appears at the side of yourt post. not moaning just being helpful..