Final footnote on this one:
A bit of mild physical abuse (manipulation) of the case and it actually booted! Then a bit later it wouldn't. Then it would, etc.

So, it was a hardware problem - probably dry joint or badly-seated connector somewhere. Over to Dell.

Thanks to Rustam and others for helping diagnose the problem.

Hi, i was having a password problem with a dell inspiron 2200, system number 5NQRJ71-595B, service tag 5NQRJ71. Well I went to set up , to passwords (f2) messed around with setting and unsetting the passwords, everthyings is not set now, but i went to reboot and now have a problem. blue screen with message that says unmountable_boot_volume, and it wont boot. i haven't installed or removed anything, can any body help. thank you in advance.

PLASE CAN YOU HELP ME FOR UNLOCK MY DELL C540 I THIRED ALL THE SHORT METHOD BUT NOT HELP I SHORTED THE PIN 3 AND 6 AND I THIRD THE PIN 4 AND 6 AND THE PIN 4 AND 7 BUT THE LAPTOP STILL LOCKED THE EPROM IS 24LC04 IS NEAR THE DIMM1

PLEASE HELP ME MY SERVICE TAG IS : #2zn5t0j-595b
AND MY EMAIL IS : [color=blue]GONE - spike. Please, no email addresses in the forum.[/color]


THANK FOR HELP

MAGICMOBILE
With that model, you need to short after power on, not before, and with delay times that can vary from No delay to as long as 6 seconds. Use Pinset 4/6 or 4/5. If the laptop shuts down when you short, you were early; if the boot continues, hold the short and see what results. If it goes to a Manufacturing Mode screen that persists-success!
If it goes to a Grey Password screen again, you were late with the short. Repeat until you hit the SweetSpot where the boot is committed, but the passwords and Service Tag have not yet begun to load into BIOS. It took me 8 shorts and varying the delay times yesterday to clear a C610.

Paragon33,

Nice that you are still around to help out. Keep it going and a lot will be benefitted from your indescriminate help.

Hi, Sam. Yes, I am still here on GOD's green earth, but at 75, I am already 5 years on HIS time, and no guarantees of for how much longer!

Hey guays I need little help on my Dell D610 is already unlock , but I am confuse trying to program bios again ,so after typing my service tag JX3FL71- it should be 595B OR D35B or it does not matter any coments will apreciate thank you...

my tag is #B1T9K0J-595B can you help me? no method works shorts either help!!

dell inspiron 8200 when i did the shorts **** manufacturing mode [FF]***** comes up and then I pressed F2 why there is no message F2 bios set-up why the short-cuts don't work?


thank you all for replay but it still doesn't work
does anybody know why [FF] mode comes up instead of [01]?
please help

Thank you Mr Plainkey yes you are correct but when I turn it on it boots onthe manufacturing mode lavel 01 than to windows and I will like to remove that and make it boot yes like a regular laptop if posible thank you again....

I bought a second hand laptop and I havent got the administrator password. When I turn it on, I get the message to give a password. My tag is #6TRS32J - 595B
Can someone please help me with a software to crack this password or something else that can solve this problem.

Thanks in advance

Could I just post a friendly reminder NOT to post your email address in the forum.

If you want people to email you, that is what the option in your profile is for. Posting your email address is likely to earn you spam, as this is a public board.

Hi rustam_

I guess the way, how I got in trouble with the password, is quite common.
Maybe my story is a warning for others. So it might be a good idea to post it here:

I did not set any passwords in my BIOS. I never did that, because I was afraid to forget the password. I took my notebook with me on train trip last week. I shared the train cabin with a bunch of teenagers, because there was no other place available in the train. I took the notebook out of the pocket and switched it on, because I wanted to work a bit, but before I finally logged into Windows, I decided to see the restroom first. I left the laptop on the seat and went to restroom. When I came back after a few minutes, I found the notebook, as I had left it, with the Windows login wating for me. I logged in and worked. Everything was fine.

The next day, when I switched on the notebook again, it asked me for a bios password. I guess those teenagers in the train set a bios password, while I was on the restroom. I am a stupid...

There are two lessons I learned from that:
1) Allways protect your notebook with a bios password
2) Never leave your notebook unattended with teenagers

Now I hope you can help me out.
The Notebook is a D610 and the code is BQ0852J-595B

THX in advance,

Mike
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that laptop is below of 3 month from shipping date and it already selled as second hand with primary password? You must reassign of ownership to yourself with DELL and ask DELL for master password. Thats all I can say for this story.

I've get surprised, your laptop was not disappear at all, however, if you live in civilized country... Anyway astonished, its so expensive thing. But see the private message.

thank for your help my laptop is unlocked now but it has hdd locked there is any free solution to unlock thid hdd service tag is 204DMHSVXJF-595B



VERY THANK FOR YOUR HELP MR [COLOR=Blue]Paragon33[/COLOR]

OK I WILL NOT POSTE MY EMAIL IN THIS FORUM MR [COLOR=DimGray]SPIKE[/COLOR]

Not from me. If rustam will not help you, the only other hope is at spam link removed for $49.50USD and not for all drives. They have a Diagnostic that will tell you for free whether they can clear the password before you pay

Thanks for the quick response. Works like a charm.
Thanks 1000 times. I am so happy ... :-)
If there is anything I could do for you, pls let me know.

This thread is being closed due to the following reasons.

It has gotten so large that it is becoming increasingly difficult to read. Add the fact that most, if not all the information required is already there, we feel that it`s time to close it, before it gets completely out of contol.

We`d like to thank all the members who have contributed to this thread. Especially Paragon33 and Ididmyc600.

If anyone has further information, or questions, we suggest opening a new thread.

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