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Old March 23rd, 2005, 02:32 PM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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Inspiron 8500 Bios Password

I have a Dell Inspiron 8500 with BIOS Revision A03. A white screen comes up with 3 grey rectangular dialog boxes across the screen. The first one says "DELL COMPUTER CORPORATION www.dell.com". The second one says "This computer system, # 2VYZ931-595B, Is protected by a password authenticcation system. You cannot access the data on this computer without the correct password." The third one says "Please type in the primary or administrator password and press <Enter>." If you type the wrong password a fourth grey dialog appears between the first and second grey dialog boxes and says "Invalid password [Press ENTER to retry]". What can I do about this? Thank you.
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Old March 23rd, 2005, 02:38 PM     #2 (permalink)
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get the password from the person who owned the laptop before?

reseting the password on laptops is alot different than a pc. Some laptops you can easily short out the bios password.

If that is asking for the hard drive password, good luck with that.
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The person that owned it is DEAD!
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