How do I fix an dell bios Password?

[EricB]

there's a password jumper on the mobo. remove it

I look for a cmos clearer. I didn't see it. there is a jumper with 2 pins there though. is this what you talking about removing?

 

[bronxblaza117]

yea if u read ur dell manual, it says reset bios through cmos and that would clear passwords...

 

[derrmc]

I look for a cmos clearer. I didn't see it. there is a jumper with 2 pins there though. is this what you talking about removing?

look for "pswd" by the jumper

 

[EricB]

ok. this isn't my computer. this is a friend. I am going over to see if that's it

 

[EricB]

yea if u read ur dell manual, it says reset bios through cmos and that would clear passwords...

you are going to get in trouble with that signature. A lot of people with this sig has had their sig privilegdes stripped

 

[Osiris]

I'm not sure if you can use that with a floppy, never used it. Also, I tried Powermax floppy, I didnt see any different using it than using Windows 98 bootdisk. The jumper will be close to the cmos battery.

 

[EricB]

I got a dell diminsion 8100 that I'm working on with the same problems and taking the jumper off completely did the trick.

thanks guys

 

[Hefemeister]

Well you can try to pull the CMOS battery on the motherboard, but if you do not want to open the case and possibly void the warranty, than try this:

pull it for five minutes and it will reset the password

 

[EricB]

so I can put it back on now? I was just going to leave it off