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Reviving old laptop for coworker. Need to reset bios password

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Turin39789

Lifer
Boss has an old celeron laptop with dvd, batteries wont hold charge but it works if it is plugged in. She's planning on setting it up for her grandson to bang on.

But it has a startup password, and I have no clue how to begin to clear it.

Some googling indicates it might be the same mechanically as a Dell Inspiron 5000E, other googling indicates even if I locate the cmos battery the password might be stored in separate eeprom and won't clear, while others suggest a jumper might clear the password.

Anyone got ideas?

Thanks!
 
If this: Some googling indicates it might be the same mechanically as a Dell Inspiron 5000E istrue then the password is in fact stored on a chip and removing the battery will do nothing.

pcgeek11
 
Unless there is a way to clear the CMOS on the unit you won't be able to clear that BIOS password. It really sucks.

My friend got a new laptop from best buy due to a bios password. He used his best buy warranty to get the unit fixed. The laptop shell broke by the hinge and the unit wouldn't close at all. When he got it back, 6 months later, they had put a bios password in for some unkown reason. They couldn't track down who put it on so they had to give him a new unt.
 
Googling lead to this page. That page and those linked from there pretty much suggest shorting the EEPROM chip and possibly using Dell service utilities to rewrite the service tags.
 
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