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Rob Beard wrote: > alex mclennan wrote: > >> 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 >>> >>> >>> >> hi ,this is way over my head but this might help >> http://www.darkmagic.org/mike/dell-tag/dell/dell.html >> from alex the noob >> >> > > > Thanks for that Alex, it's a slightly different model but it's worth a > shot anyway. > > Ta, > > Rob > > just a follow up on this, is a programme called killcmos,i have been told that this resets all bios settings but if not used correctly can kill the laptop so use at your own risk and can be downloaded at major geeks. alex the noob -- 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