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    Reset Dell Bios Password?

    I mentioned in the original post that F12 requires a password. It's the same as pressing F2, you get nowhere until you enter the password.
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    Reset Dell Bios Password?

    Yes, I tried, and people keep suggesting it without reading the topic. I even said I tried in the first post. It does not work. The password is stored in NVRAM, not in the regular CMOS settings.
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    Reset Dell Bios Password?

    There can be issues with installing windows on another computer and moving the drive back to the laptop. It might work, but it might just crash on startup then, who knows. Also I don't really want to fix Windows for them, I want to let it boot normally so they can fix it themselves. I think...
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    Reset Dell Bios Password?

    Thanks. Looks like that is A28 and I had A12. I'll have to see what's new on that version. It may only do service tag changes still though, I'm not sure.
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    Reset Dell Bios Password?

    I searched for things like that, but only came up with a Dell Internal utility that lets you change the service tag and other things like that. Since I can boot from CDs by removing the hard drive, I tried that. I tried changing the service tag to things like AAAAAAA and using those utilities...
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    Reset Dell Bios Password?

    While I appreciate your attempt to help, I mentioned in the very first post that the CMOS battery was already removed. It does not clear the password on Dell laptops under any circumstance. Even when left out for 48 hours as mentioned in a later post.
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    Reset Dell Bios Password?

    So... you can boot from CD when the hard drive is removed, without having to use F12. Updated from A05 to A12 BIOS while booted from a Hiren's BootCD. There is still a password on the BIOS afterwards though.
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    Reset Dell Bios Password?

    Both batteries were removed and the laptop sat, unplugged of course, for 48 hours, with no change. I'm pretty sure the password is written to some NVRAM on another chip. Can't update the BIOS, unless there is a secret key-press that I don't know about which will jump directly to updating the...
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    Reset Dell Bios Password?

    If it is, it's not going to work, and I doubt my friend would have spent 4 hours on the phone with dell trying to get a password out of the service code, only to have them tell her that maybe removing the CMOS battery will work (obviously it would never). I'm going to have to guess that the...
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    Reset Dell Bios Password?

    I'm sure if that was going to happen, I wouldn't have the laptop over at my place at all. All he knows is it was like 16 letters long, and everything he tried he thought was right didn't work.
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    Reset Dell Bios Password?

    dell, Dell, and DELL were all tried, none work. I'm sure those are all for very old models.
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    Reset Dell Bios Password?

    So, my friend's son messed up his Windows installation. You can't boot into anything. No F8 Safe Mode or anything gets past a few seconds of boot without a hard reset for no reason. I'm sure my friend could fix this for her son, but he put a password on the BIOS and doesn't remember it. The...
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    Does Fujitsu MHW2160BJ 160GB 7200rpm 2.5" have a freefall sensor

    Well if it doesn't have that feature, it seems like it's going to be a difficult case to argue with Dell support over. The choices on the Vostro 1700 currently still list what I just purchased: 160GB Free Fall Sensor Hard Drive, 7200RPM, for Dell Vostro 1700 Notebook add $0 Dual Hard Drives...
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    Does Fujitsu MHW2160BJ 160GB 7200rpm 2.5" have a freefall sensor

    I couldn't find any mention of it at http://www.fujitsu.com/us/serv...le/mhw2160bj-sata.html Perhaps I just missed it, but the "datasheet" PDF didn't have much information in it at all. I specifically purchased the 160GB with freefall sensor from Dell, for the price as the 250GB 5400rpm...
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    Does Fujitsu MHW2160BJ 160GB 7200rpm 2.5" have a freefall sensor

    No, I believe it detects when the laptop is dropped more than a few inches, and moves the heads to the side and disables read/write temporarily to avoid damage. What you said sounds like just a way to check after the fact if the drive was dropped maybe.
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    Does Fujitsu MHW2160BJ 160GB 7200rpm 2.5" have a freefall sensor

    Does a Fujitsu MHW2160BJ 160GB 7200rpm 2.5" have a freefall sensor? It came in my Vostro 1700, but I thought only Seagate and maybe Samsung drives had the sensor from what I can gather on Google and Fujitsu's website.
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    Windows XP SP2c - What files actually changed?

    I recently purchased some spare parts to build myself a clone of the main computer I am using right now. I used trueimage to clone the hard drive, so I could keep the larger 500GB in my main machine, and the 250GB in the backup machine. I then tried to use magic jellybean to change the key of...
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    Hitachi 500GB

    What is the difference between these 3 models T7K500 P7K500 E7K500? All have 16MB cache, 7200rpm, SATA 3.0Gb/s. I'm looking at 3 different 500GB drives at newegg, the first two are $99.99 and the last one is $150.99, so what is the difference?
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    Annoying RAM trouble

    I built this system back in July 2006 with 100% parts from newegg, including Windows XP Pro. It has an Abit KN9 SLI socket AM2 board with an Athlon 64 X2 4200+ (windsor) and Crucial Ballistix 1GB (2x 512MB) DDR2-800 RAM. I had to manually put the RAM voltage from 1.8v to 2.2v in the BIOS, and...
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    42" LCD: Sharp Aquos vs Westinghouse vs Samsung?

    I bought the Samsung LNS4696D 46" LCD instead - $2583
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    42" LCD: Sharp Aquos vs Westinghouse vs Samsung?

    I really don't want to have to deal with shipping. I've been looking in BB/CC/ABC a lot today, and now I added a Samsung LNS4095D 40" to the mix of what I'm looking at. I think I'm going to eliminate the Westinghouse since I can't find it in stores. I almost bought the Samsung today, since the...
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    42" LCD: Sharp Aquos vs Westinghouse vs Samsung?

    Well the Westinghouse is $1500 with free shipping at Crutchfield. An extra $200-$300 might be worth getting an item like this from a physical store, just in case something goes wrong, and I need to exchange or return it. Plus, unlike everything else I ever buy, I'll probably buy the sucker...
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    42" LCD: Sharp Aquos vs Westinghouse vs Samsung?

    So I'm considering getting a cheap 42" LCD to replace my 27" CRT, and considering these two models. The Westinghouse LVM-42W2 isn't available in stores as far as I can see, so I have to order from Amazon, which is a big minus. It is only around $1300 though compared to the $2000 the Sharp Aquos...
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    AM2 abit problems

    1.3 is "official" now ... http://www.abit.com.tw/page/uk/motherbo...SLI&fMTYPE=Socket%20AM2&pPRODINFO=BIOS
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    Abit KN9 SLI does not work with OCZ RAM?

    No, I've only seen 1.0 and 1.2 on any of abit's various country websites. I already sent the OCZ back to newegg too, but I am curious to what it takes to resolve this problem anyway, since my friends will likely want to build a new computer similar to mine for cheap soon. If neither of those OCZ...
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    Abit KN9 SLI does not work with OCZ RAM?

    Just purchased a Althon X2 4200+, KN9 SLI, and 2x512MB 4-5-4-15 2.1V OCZ DDR2-800 RAM from newegg, but the ram is really flaky -- one stick boots in slot 2 or 4, but the system doesn't turn on, and doesn't beep if it is in slot 1 or 3. The other stick just beeps as if no memory when in any slot...
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    Asus EN7600GS SILENT

    I'm looking at the choices at http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductLi...790717&Submit=ENE&Nty=1&SubCategory=48 The Asus EN7600GS SILENT 256M says the memory runs at 800MHz, but the 512M version says 540MHz. Is that right? If so, which would I want for about the same price? Faster memory, or...
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    What board for a new Athlon 64 X2 system?

    Probably because I don't see the KN9 Ultra listed yet at newegg.
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    What board for a new Athlon 64 X2 system?

    I'm building a brand new system, and will order everything from newegg. I'm looking at an Athlon 64 X2 4200+ which is basically the same price for 939 or AM2. The price gap between DDR-400 and DDR2-800 doesn't seem like very much to me either. I'm not sure which motherboard to get though. I've...
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    Screen flickers when I click video files

    I did notice a slowdown in right-clicking movie files when I upgraded from 2000 to XP, but I just figured it was XP's fault. There was no flickering though. I am kind of surprised there is no option for this in the nView control panel. I disable all the rest of those features which seem to...
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    Motorola 802.11g USB adapter, anyone used this?

    I've used http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16833130115 under Windows 2000 without trouble, behind a few walls. There are even cheaper ones at newegg, but I don't know about Motorola specifically.
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    This Guy made my day

    Note, the JPG comments mention things like "Adobe Photoshop CS2 Windows" so I bet he did more then just resize the image...
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    Looking to get my first LCD

    I personally think it's important to match the aspect ratio (AR) of your monitor. Typically that means 4:3, so for a normal CRT, use 1280x960. Most 1280x1024 LCDs are actually 5:4 AR themselves (in order to maintain square pixels, which I also think is important) so you should run them as...
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    On the pronunciation of "EVGA"

    I thought it was Eve Gah No, not really. It's "E", "V", "G" "A".
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    Cleartype in portrait mode?

    Say you rotate your LCD 90 degrees, then go switch the desktop layout to match, the text suddenly becomes pretty bad looking, and I suspect it's because the subpixel layout for the fonts is now all wrong. Any way to fix that?
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    Can you live without Dual Monitors?

    No. I don't do db programming, and I never print anything, but I do typically have VS open in one window and MSDN in another. Having to move my neck or head back and forth would be a lot more troublesome then just quickly tapping alt+tab when needed. VS uses tabs just like Firefox, and both...
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    What exactly is vivo?

    VIVO is basically the AIW minus the TV tuner. You get composite and/or svid in and out, but not the coax in.
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    Can you live without Dual Monitors?

    No, I couldn't stand having to move my head left and right all the time to see the two screens. I program all day long and have a lot of windows open, and alt+tab is a lot more friendlier then I would imagine two screens to be.
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    Dead Pixels - do more occur/appear over time?

    Sorry, but http://www.google.com/search?q=rgb.swf&btnI
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    Gaming with Samsung 912T?

    The 730B is a 6-bit TN panel. The 193P+ is pretty expensive at nearly $600 though. Is that the only way to get both 8-bit and a low response time? It seems that almost all of the PVA panels are 8-bit and 20ms+ while all of the TN panels are 6-bit and 12ms or less. How is it that the 193P+ gets...