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Hey all!

I recently acquired online on eBay (I should hacve known better) a Dell Latitude D630 Notebook, and our old friend, the grey Password screen is showing up on Service Tag GFBFPD1-595B.

As usual, Dell is of no help. Heck, they wouldnt help me one time on an Inspiron 5100 that did this, AND I WAS THE ORIGINAL OWNER!!!! And Dell wonders why they recently had to close their Austin Desktop Assembly plant and are laying off over 8,800 workers this year.

But I digress.

Now I know that the password generators out there wont work on the 595B tags, so I did as suggested.

I took it all apart...and I cannot for the life of me locate this 24C02 chip.

So my questions are as follows:

1. Did Dell change the eeprom IC number?
2. Does anyone have any idea where the chip would be located. The Motherboard is the DT781 version of the board

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Larry

EDIT: I just found out that this Model does not use the 24 series EEPROM but rather an unshortable 25 series.

yes you wont be able to short this laptop. either wait for or buy a password or be the guy with the most expensive door stop in town.