bios password reset

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by wiredforpower, Aug 30, 2007.

  1. wiredforpower

    wiredforpower Private E-2

    I was recently given a dell inspiron 1200 laptop running windows xp. The bios is password protected. The boot priority is set so that I can't boot from anything else except the hard drive. I've tried several programs to reset the BIOS password in windows but direct hardware communication "has been disabled"

    any ideas?
     
  2. InYearsToCome

    InYearsToCome MajorGeek

    pull the motherboard battery to remove the password, wait a minute or two, and replace it. :)

    instructions here. http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ins2200/en/SM/coincell.htm#1111212
     

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