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Rob Beard wrote: > Hi folks, > > This is probably a really long shot but does anyone have the software to > generate a master password for a Dell Latitude D500 BIOS? > > My brother-in-law has got himself an old Dell Latitude D500 from a mate > of his but unfortunately it's got a password on the BIOS so it won't boot. > > I've done some google searching this evening and it seems that you need > a specific utility to generate a master password to unlock the BIOS and > some of the sites I've visited said that I can get a password for the > great price of $90! > > Sods law I did find a utility but it only works on the older Latitude > notebooks. This one has a 595B version BIOS which uses different codes > and for security's sake, Dell have used an EEPROM to store the password > so even taking out the BIOS battery won't work (already tried this). > > Just thought I'd check anyway before going down the stripping down to > get to the EEPROM chip option. > > Rob > > Call dell, they can give the codes FOC.. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html