Dell BIOS Password Removal

Paragon33, my best to you and your inspirational spirit! Sincere thanks and a deep draught to your quick recovery! This has been an enlightening bit of time I've spent following this thread; I am quite ready for wireless and membershiped to express my gratitude to you, Ididmyc600, and so many others that have contributed to the body of information here. Now I'm off to do MY <friends> c600 .... : -)

kawaisunn

hi guys

reading thru this thread, WOW you guys are busy :)

anyways got holf of an old 510m inspiron froma guy who works at the local school, some 1 messed the bios up and cant remember the password
it the grey screen asking for the passy 595B service so the passy gen wont werk
ive got the lappy in bits in front of me as i trype
ive located the 24c04 eeprom under a piece of black sheet under the pcmcia socket
next to the actual bios flash chip
ive tried 5 6 7 pins tied to groud while tapping power button
also tried holdding my shorted to the ground point on the board while powering up
but still get hte grey screen

any help is greatly apreciated


dave

but still get the grey screen

any help is greatly apreciated ,dave

Hi
Its a case of perserverance, as I say to all its not a simple job, ask Paragon, he'll tell you that it can many many attempts to reset it.

Try shorting whilst powering on for a few seconds or longer, Try shorting whilst pressing the power button repeatedly (with the PSU and battery removed).

it really is a case of trial and error, make sure that you have a decent ground by using a test meter to test, if not move your earth elsewhere.

ahh i got it sorted now
pressed power on then quickly shorted the 2 wires i had connected to pins 3 and 6
all good now
installing xp pro as we speak ;)

thanks again guys


dave

Thanks Paragon! Your USB DST EXE file got me in. BTW this not only works for USB boot devices, but also for people that have a USB 2.5" HDD enclosure (much much simpler than cracking open your case and doing the Win98 floppy boot method). I was able to utilize this to get into my Dell Latitude CPi-A.

Hey guys

I just bought an Inspiron 9100 off EBay and it has a password and of course the seller claims that he doesn't remember it. What is the best method for this? Should I try the paperclip method? I tried some of the password generators, but none of them worked. Also contacted Dell. Big surprise that that was no help :( Any help would be greatly appriciated! BTW - Is the paperclip method difficult, and what does it involve doing exactly? Thanks!

paper clip method involves you taking apart your lappy, or if ur lucky ull get the eeprom in the memory bay round the side somewhere.
its not hard to take ya lappy apart, its just fiddly and load sof little screws at diff lengths, but nothign too bad, i did my dell inspiron 510m yesterday with the help of this thread ;)

any help u require just post here, the guys here are always willing to lend a hand ;)


dave

Hey guys

Is the paperclip method difficult, and what does it involve doing exactly? Thanks!

Inside the laptop is a small chip (yes its very small, about half the size of your little finger nail, and it has 8 legs,) the idea is to open the laptop, strip it down completley (the website in my tag will show you how to locate the service manual for your laptop) until you have access to the motherboard and then locate the CHIP it is marked with numbers, usually in the format 24cXXX, there is a picture of it on my website (see my tag), once found, dependant on location, you either short it with a shorter tool (paper clip or paragons tool) until the laptop resets to the manufacturing screen, at this point you press the function key on your keyboard plus the X key , or you attach wires to the legs and then short it. once shorted you have removed the SERVICE TAG and thus the passwords.

The shorting method vary's from shorting during power on to shorting with no PSU or battery and pressing the power button rapidly, there is no set method we have found that works with every Laptop.

Once you have reset the chip you will need to download the DST software from the site to set your service tag, as until you do you wont be able to set a password on the laptop (assuming you do, why not its yours protect it)

If you have any questions please ask, I usually drop in around tea time UK time.

How can I find the chip? I have removed most of the stuff to access my motherboard (Palm rest, Keyboard ETC) and now I don't know where to locate the chip at. Is it actually going to be on the bottom of the board or the top? If it's on the bottom like the one in the guide pictures, how do I remove the bottom of my case to get to that part of the mobo? Thanks!

How can I find the chip? I have removed most of the stuff to access my motherboard (Palm rest, Keyboard ETC) and now I don't know where to locate the chip at. Is it actually going to be on the bottom of the board or the top? If it's on the bottom like the one in the guide pictures, how do I remove the bottom of my case to get to that part of the mobo? Thanks!

Following the Service Manual to open your motherboard
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/insxps/sm/index.htm

Locate your EEPROM. What I did is I used a camcorder and focused on all ICs with 8 legs and read its name. By doing that you could find the chip quickly.
After that, using the paperclip method to reset the laptop to manufacturing mode. And then using the software on http://homepage.ntlworld.com/judslat/paragon/ to clear the Service Tag and you done....

Following the Service Manual to open your motherboard
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/insxps/sm/index.htm

Locate your EEPROM. What I did is I used a camcorder and focused on all ICs with 8 legs and read its name. By doing that you could find the chip quickly.
After that, using the paperclip method to reset the laptop to manufacturing mode. And then using the software on http://homepage.ntlworld.com/judslat/paragon/ to clear the Service Tag and you done....

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

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.

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.

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.
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.

No need for software or anything else.

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.

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

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

you can post details here


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.

If you meane the site in my signature, itīs not mine, dellpass is the webmaster. I just promote this guy because he does a real good job and sell no bull****. Just have a look at the feedback.


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.

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 :)

Just to let you know.

The matter is under consideration.

Regards Howard :)


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

mine the tag is #8G1T90J-595B,

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.

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.

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.
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

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:


I tried this and it doesn't work for my laptop. I guess this's just applied for a couple service tags. What do you think? Did you try some different laptops?

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.

Can you get the HDD password for all kind of hard drives (IBM, Hitachi, ...)?

I tried this and it doesn't work for my laptop. I guess this's just applied for a couple service tags. What do you think? Did you try some different laptops?


The poster supplied a password based on MY service tag as given in an earlier thread, the password will vary (same as those using the MPGenerator for D35B service tags) for each SERVICE TAG.

If you contact the poster with your tag and try it on your locked laptop, please post your results here.

I dont have any control of this but if it works, then I for one will be glad.

Can you get the HDD password for all kind of hard drives (IBM, Hitachi, ...)?

Why not just post your HD request tag here and the poster may give the code, as I said in my lastpost, we could do with a few of us testing this on both laptops and harddrives.

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.
I do not understand your reasoning; the method previously espoused by Ididmyc600 and myself-plus many other folks over the last 3 years-works. It is however difficult for less computer literate folks to accomplish. If your way is as good as you claim, it would be a blessing to them.
The stuff I furnish was not mine to begin with and some of the material was originally given to me by an individual named qasimtoep. His Paper clip Doc is archived and free to anyone who needs it at this site. He also gave me the original version of the DST file for ServiceTag delete/reset, which I have kept updated to the latest version. I do not ask for a person's pedigree, background, history or anything else before sending the files, in the same spirit that qasimtoep exhibited to me. How about a little of that same spirit from you, without making people beg for your help?
http://www.darkmagic.org/mike/dell-tag/dell/dell.html

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.


Here is my HDD serial number 11 chars followed by -595B:
42W2ZNE9979
So the whole string is #42W2ZNE9979-595B. It's an IBM Travelstar, model DJSA-210. Capacity is 6GB.

Could you please give me its password?

Here is my HDD serial number 11 chars followed by -595B:
42W2ZNE9979
So the whole string is #42W2ZNE9979-595B. It's an IBM Travelstar, model DJSA-210. Capacity is 6GB.

Could you please give me its password?

If the password length is 6 or less chars I know how to clear it. But it's not worth for the 6GB HDD capacity.

rustam_, can you give us a hint about your method?

For you I give thats: VDMDJW6S
Here is my HDD serial number 11 chars followed by -595B:
42W2ZNE9979
So the whole string is #42W2ZNE9979-595B. It's an IBM Travelstar, model DJSA-210. Capacity is 6GB.

Could you please give me its password?

If the password length is 6 or less chars I know how to clear it. But it's not worth for the 6GB HDD capacity.

rustam_, can you give us a hint about your method?
I write for me the same utility like latitude.exe. But I dont want for uncontrolled password removing from every notebook if it may be free.

For you I give thats: VDMDJW6S

WOW, that password already unlocked my HDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can access the bios with the HDD plugging and the HDD password is disabled. This is so wonderful!

THANK YOU VERY MUCH, rustam_ ... You are the man. I'm working for a non-profit organization. We got donated some laptops, 3 of them got HDD password. So now I still have other 2 locked HDDs, could you please help me to unlock them?

need help too please i got an dell latitude d600 and my serial number of my laptop is #GC0JT0J-595B (stands at back of my laptop)


please Help me
thx

THANK YOU VERY MUCH, rustam_ ... You are the man. I'm working for a non-profit organization. We got donated some laptops, 3 of them got HDD password. So now I still have other 2 locked HDDs, could you please help me to unlock them?

You write your story before:

Here is my situation. I'm working for a non-profit organization (RDI, Research & Development Institute). A company donated a couple Dell laptops for RDI (about 7 laptops). These laptops are old and same model (Dell Latitude CPx, J650). But you know we can not access any of them. Three of them got Admin/Primary password, two got HDD password and the other two I can access, but the OS has been gone. I had to re-install OS. But I couldn't change the BOOT order in the CMOS. Luckily, I followed what Paragon said and reset the Configuration Password. So I can boot by CD-ROM . Thank you, Paragon! So far I already finished 2 of 7 laptops.

Here I see 3 laptops with primary password, 2 without password and 2 with HDD password. Additional passworded HDD has been in first 3 laptops?
Give me these strings, which displayed on the screen for passworded laptops, so I can generate the passwords for you. No need me to know an HDD type and so on, only string from # followed by -595B or -D35B.

your story is not convince me to help you for some reasons.

rustam.

If you don`t want to help someone, then that`s fine. After all this is a completely voluntary site, where members help or don`t as they see fit.

However, it would be better not to reply, rather than to say you didn`t want to help. That way, no one could take any offence.

Regards Howard :)

Dont think for one minute however that I am annoyed in anyway, i'm not, whilst I have been here I have helped a lot of people to get rid of the dreaded grey screen and I feel really good that I could help so many people.

Rustam has a method that doesn't require any software or shorting and can even unlock HDD's.

So the site is now down and RUstam is the Man to speak to for help I have private messaged him and asked that he try to keep up , when you consider paragons site has had over 4100 hits , he is going to be a very busy chap.

As for me, its fishing season and I think I'm going to put the old dell latitude up for sale on Ebay


Good luck to all ... Nice to have met so many nice people.

PS Paragon I will keep in touch via email as you have been a real good friend...

You write your story before:

Here I see 3 laptops with primary password, 2 without password and 2 with HDD password. Additional passworded HDD has been in first 3 laptops?
Give me these strings, which displayed on the screen for passworded laptops, so I can generate the passwords for you. No need me to know an HDD type and so on, only string from # followed by -595B or -D35B.

Yeah, you are right. The additional locked HDD is in the first 3 laptops (I know that after I cleared the primary password)
Here are the strings:

#42W2DNE7284-595B
#AF0AF2M8031-595B

Once again, thank you very much for your help.

Ok I finelly got my D610 unlocked by shorting the chip so now to program the bios again (IS THIS NESESARY OR NOT) I don't have a flopy drive on my loptop how is done is there other ways , I relly have nothing to hide my loptop so I don't want to put any password again any comments will apreciate... thank you...

CAN U FIND OUT MY PW TOO????

w8r9f801 doesnt work
and for infomation my laptop is totally formated theres nothing on it


hotwired chip problem is gone


thx

Hi,

My best friend about one year ago on market bought Dell INSPIRON 4000.
All was ok until one night he tried to change dell bios password. He was drunk. Next day he couldn't access to computer because can't remember password.
I disassemle dell and read cmos 24lc02 but don't know how to decode pasword.
Can you help me to decode password.
Service tag is CN8250J-595B.

Thanks for any help.
amber

Onpage 46, there is a fellow named rustam who has a Master Password generator for the -595B series Passwords that I do not have. Try him first, and if that does not work out, then contact me at email removed for a different but more complex way that also works.

Dont think for one minute however that I am annoyed in anyway, i'm not, whilst I have been here I have helped a lot of people to get rid of the dreaded grey screen and I feel really good that I could help so many people.

Rustam has a method that doesn't require any software or shorting and can even unlock HDD's.

So the site is now down and RUstam is the Man to speak to for help I have private messaged him and asked that he try to keep up , when you consider paragons site has had over 4100 hits , he is going to be a very busy chap.

As for me, its fishing season and I think I'm going to put the old dell latitude up for sale on Ebay


Good luck to all ... Nice to have met so many nice people.

I`m sorry to hear you`re leaving us Ididmyc600.

On behalf of all the Techspot staff, moderators and members, I`d like to thank you for the time and effort you have dedicated to this thread.

I wish you all the very best for the future.

Regards Howard :)