Dell Latitude CPi ds266xt Password issue

[kazak]

Gudday
I have bought a second hand Dell and on power up I am asked for a password for which I have no idea nor does the person I bought the laptop from.
I have stripped the laptop to look for jumpers etc. to no avail.
I beleive from what I have seen of the chipset that the password is buried in nvram.
Anybody done a hardware reset of the bios on one of these machines?
Maybe I can short some pins on the nvram (if I could find it).
Cheers
Kaz

 

[Ididmyc600]

Gudday
I have bought a second hand Dell and on power up I am asked for a password

You and several thousand others,

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[Janet]

bios password

Gudday
I have bought a second hand Dell and on power up I am asked for a password for which I have no idea nor does the person I bought the laptop from.
I have stripped the laptop to look for jumpers etc. to no avail.
I beleive from what I have seen of the chipset that the password is buried in nvram.
Anybody done a hardware reset of the bios on one of these machines?
Maybe I can short some pins on the nvram (if I could find it).
Cheers
Kaz

Hi Kaz,

Did you manage to remove the bios password?

Thanks for any help you can give me