I bought my dell latitude 400cs second-hand at a thrift store, with no way of finding the previous owner.and dell won't help.... Anybody have some ideas no how to remove it? It won't let me change any bios settings. help.............. :suspiciou
Hi, I just had the same problem with my Dell CPI. I used that program in latitude.zip and it worked like a champ! Now you say your service tag is CD10V, that is only part of it. When your PC boots up and asks for the Password you should see CD10VV-**-xx or something like that. I thought the ** was some hidden letters/numbers but I typed it exactly how it was displayed and the Password given worked. My Laptop had done this before but then eventually let me in. But this time since I used the Recovery password, I found out that the letter O is not working with my keyboard. O is in my password. A couple other keys were not working also. So I got lucky the backdoor password didnt use any of those letters. I guess I would have plugged in an external keyboard.
RADCOM said:Have you tried removing the CMOS battery for a day or so
found in some forum said:Posted by DOOM KABOOM on June 18, 2002 at 07:18:52:
In Reply to: Re: Need Bios Password for laptop DELL Latitude C600 posted by doom kaboom on June 18, 2002 at 06:46:56:
: all bios passwords can be removed easily,
: 1-create a dos system disk,
: 2- copy "debug" (this is a dos command found in windows\command directory) onto the system disk you created,
: 3- boot the machine with this disk,
: 4- at dos prompt type: debug then enter, you will see a blinking dash
: 5- type: o 70 2e then enter, (also seen: o 70 18)
: 6- type: o 71 ff then enter,
: 7- type: q then enter,
: 8- remove the floppy and reboot! Power the system off and on by unplugging and re-plugging the system into the power outlet
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