Bought from flea market and didnt know bios was locked
Use google to find the procedure of shorting the bios pins it sounds alot harder than it actualy is
SOURCE: i bought a dell inspiron 1525 notebook and it has a bios password
Take the battery out Short the battery terminals or shorting points .Reinstal battery and the pass word wil be gone.
SOURCE: locked bios on dell inspiron 6400
Is there any clr cmos written on the board. The motherboards which do not have jumpers come with three point like solder on the board. You have to short first two manually with some wire.
If it is not there then you have to flush the bios with the bios flushing utility.
SOURCE: Dell B130 Laptop BIOS LOCKED
On alot of motherboards, and I don't know if I would have access to this one or not, there is a set of 3 pins coming out of the board itself, usually with a jumper on 1-2 position. Somewhere next to them, maybe some text like PWD CLR ? Usually, moving the jumper to 2-3, clears the password on the BIOS, as a failsafe back up. If it does look, 'comfortably' like that, don't change anything else. It usually takes only a minute, under battery power, to clear it. Once done, move the jumper back to the 1-2 position.
If you don't see it clearly, write back and I'll see if my Technician access allows for the detailed info. Also, please include the Model # amd Make of your Dell unit.
Respectfully,
Toby White-Beebe
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SOURCE: Dell inspiron 1545 "password authentication system"
go to www.novatecdirect.com they can help, works for me everytime.
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