Resetting Dell laptop BIOS

[MonkeySputum]

A pal of mine has a laptop for her kids to use, one of the little shits has added an administrator password to the BIOS and windows wont boot until it's entered. Since neither of them will admit to having done it, I was wondering if anyone on here can point me in the direction of how to do it, short of taking it apart.

The laptop in question is an inspiron 1300.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

[TotallyRandom]

Phone dell they will give you it

you will need the details of who bought it and the address of where it was delivered also the message that's on screen

normally the tag and hash then 4 digit code

any problems gives a shot

[psxcity]

make a boot disc and reset the password...info here

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html

[coin-op]

make a boot disc and reset the password...info here

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html

That is for resetting the windows admin password isn't it?

The BIOS password is what monkeysputum wants to reset.

[kracken]

make a boot disc and reset the password...info here

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html

that will not work for this particular instance

[psxcity]

That is for resetting the windows admin password isn't it?

The BIOS password is what monkeysputum wants to reset.

hmmmm must read slower!!!!!!!

A reliable method can be found here:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/
look for Password recovery.

Try the backdoor password Dell

Christophe Grenier has written a program that will calculate the master BIOS password for Dell Latitudes from the Service Tag number. That program is available at http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~sk...s/latitude.exe.

[kracken]

On laptops, the password is usually stored in an eeprom on the motherboard, you need an eeprom programmer to retrieve it.

[Garny]

If all else fails use this method works 100% ive done loads http://www.darkmagic.org/mike/dell-tag/dell/dell.html