It works and you have the right chip.Short 4/6 or 4/5 but you must do it after Power On, not before, and at delay times of from none to as long as 6 seconds. Just keep doing it until you get a Manufacturing Mode screen. If the laptop shuts down when you short, you were too early; If it continues the boot, hold the short in place and see what happens. If it goes to the Grey/White screen asking for a password again, you were late with the short. I have cleared 10 Inspiron 8000 boards and 2 8100 boards using this technique, so take heart and persist.dowey said:I've tried this method on my inspiron 8100, but nothing happened.
Could someone explain this?
I'm sure I got the right eeprom chip. Under the cd drivebay, isn't it?
beski said:if yyou could help me my service tag is
#2ss4d51-595b if anyone could help me remove this password i would be very grateful?????
palx80 said:My Great Aunt recently passed away and my father acquired her laptop but when we powered it on it has a security password and we are not knowledgeable enough to take this thing apart so could someone please help us find out what is on my great aunts laptop. Service tag is 50vkc51-595b.
PLease Help!!
amateurandy said:Subject to confirmation of what I find; Rustam is this something you can help with and what information do I need to give you? If I can solve this, do you (Rustam) have a charity we can donate to?
Thanks in hope.
Hello again,amateurandy said:Hello, I'm trying to help a neighbour whose son has somehow locked his laptop and has just gone back to University. I suspect playing with it while under the influence of alcohol, but who knows?
He's a student at Nottingham university and the IT people there said they couldn't even look at it for at least a week, so his dad is bringing the laptop home tomorrow for me to look at (I "dabble" with PC's quite a lot).
From what little I've been told it's the hard drive password that is now on - could this be a virus or is it more likely a meddling user?
If all else fails I'll take the hard disk out and plug it into a desktop to see what I find - I have the relevant adapters.
Subject to confirmation of what I find; Rustam is this something you can help with and what information do I need to give you? If I can solve this, do you (Rustam) have a charity we can donate to?
Thanks in hope.
amateurandy said:Hello again,
My neighbour has collected his sons laptop and I now have it.
It is indeed the hard disk password that is on, and it asks for the password to hard disk #l*l*l*l*l*l*-595B
rustam_ said:It seems as HDD or controller failed. Password here is useless. Check with another good HDD.
amateurandy said:Rustam, many thanks for checking.
To be honest I don't quite understand what you are saying - have I given the wrong information? Can you explain a bit more please?
I saw a post where you asked for an 11-digit disk serial number, but I can't see anything like that.
I took the disk out and can read it in a desktop PC perfectly OK. Not a Dell PC though. Unfortunately I don't have another to try.
Thank you very much for your advice and assistance.rustam_ said:So, you have good HDD without password and defective laptop. Because #l*l*l*l*l*l*-595B is not correct HDD serial number, I cant help you. Give your laptop to near service center for repair or dismantle at all .
Final footnote on this one:amateurandy said:Thank you very much for your advice and assistance.
Presumably if the laptop was working the password request would have a real serial number in it, not a display of repeated l* (or is it 1*?).
Sorry if I appear stupid, but I've never seen this before so do not know what to expect.
The laptop is relatively new so I expect the owner will send it back to Dell if it is still under warranty. He was looking for a quick fix (as we all are!) :giddy:
Best wishes,
Andrew
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!Sam Ontario said:Paragon33,
Nice that you are still around to help out. Keep it going and a lot will be benefitted from your indescriminate help.