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Originally posted by Dane
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Originally posted by john-t
Try using the password Dell to get into the BIOS it's a known backdoor for most dell's.
A password is not a backdoors; its simply a password.
Anyway, if you're trying to get into the BIOS of a desktop with absolutely no luck, pulling the little watch battery out of the motherboard and putting it back in resets the BIOS, but dont forget to reset the date/time and all that jazz.
It is a laptop not a desktop. So unless you are taking it apart you dont have easy access to the battery.
Can you press like F8 or F12 or some key that will allow you to select a boot device?
The only other solution I could think of would be to get an IDE to USB adapter ($20) connect the Harddrive over USB and use VMWare to boot the drive. You need to allow VMWare to access the entire device not just a Virtual Disk. Once you have this you may be able to boot from an NTPassword Boot CD and reset the passwords.
It is worth a shot other then that I have no idea.
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