Okay, when i try entering my bios screen its asking me to enter my password, but i dont remember putting in a password to log into my bios is there a way i candisable this or a program in which it can tell me what the password is? i'd appreciate the help.

Refer to your motherboard manual. There's pins on your board to "jump" the Bios Password.

Its gonna be a "CMOS Clear" option or something like that.

Also try removing the battery. (Unplug your computer first) Then reinstall it and short the jumper.

briefly explain what short jumper means... im one big n0ob when it comes to motherboards and stuff like that.

In your motherboard manual , look for something called Clear CMOS. That's also the same as shorting out the jumpers. That gets rid of all the CMOS settings including passwords, and sets them to default. Usually clearing the CMOS involves shorting out two jumper pins, which means connecting both pins together to create a short. Hope this helps.

Oliver

well i remmoved the battery like Vehementi told me and that worked also. thanks everyone for the help.

thinking back now that was the easiest way. Just pop the battery out.

A virus did that to me once

The password also came up at boot, so I had to clear the CMOS just so I could format the drive...

oh i doubt this was a virus, everything seemed fine, guess it was some one at my house playing around with my stuff
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well, atleast you got it fixed...

reseting the cmos setup is one of the best thing my mobo has

You can also delete the BIOS password from the dos prompt! (Not sure it works in NT/w2k/xp if you are using it boot from a floppy) Here is what you should do:

At the C:\> prompt, type:

DEBUG

and hit Enter. You'll see a dash (-) at the DEBUG prompt. Now type:

o 70 2e

which will show as -o 70 2e at the DEBUG prompt. Hit Enter. Then type:

o 71 ff

and hit Enter. Finally type:

Q

and hit Enter one last time, to quit DEBUG, back to the C:\> prompt.

After that just reboot the computer and enter the BIOS!

Hi all:
can neone help me with a bios pw for a Dell Inspiron 6400/E1505, i've checked everywhere (eg. software, shorting) and can't seem to find the way around this.
Service tag: 3SM9Z91-595B
Thanks

i am having the same problem with my dell inspiron 700m and i can get in the bios screen locks me out i have even tried calling dell but they don't seen to be any help, pls help me ??

does the above work when you get the gray screen asking for a password?

Some systems have their BIOS password protected. Often done with office machines, because they don't want anyone to mess with the BIOS. You can remove the password by moving a jumper on the MB. The jumper is 3 pronged and located close to the BIOS battery. Sometimes it is labeled as BIOS or Pwd. Move the jumper to the other 2 prongs and you password protection will be gone.
I ran into this problem when I bought a used Dell at an office sale. Came home and I was unable to ad a CD ROM, because the BIOS was password protected.
Have fun...

cant find jumper who got photo

Guys, the bios password on a Dell laptop is stored on an eeprom chip and cannot be removed by taking the battery out etc.

See this thread [b][URL="http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic68412.html"]HERE[/URL].[/b]

Regards Howard

I have a Dell D400 Bought second hand, has anybody got any idea how to unlock it,

the message im getting is, "This Computers System #5QPTG1J-595B, Is protected by a password authentication system. you cannot access the data on this computer without the correct password.

Please type in the primary or administrator password and press enter

the service tag is 5QPTG1J
please can someone help me,
i have tried most password removal technics and alot of them don't work, or don't like the 595B systems, oh the bios is an A07.
thanks in advance