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DELL Latitude CPi BIOS help
Hay everyone,
I have a Dell latitude CPi laptop, which I bought from another person. Week ago, I wanted to do a clean installation; therefore, I formatted the hard drive from a boot disk and inserted the CDROM with the bootable windows CD in it. Someone has messed with the BIOS. I can't change the boot sequence. I've tried using latitude.exe and the other password identifiers. They didn't work. I disconnected the CMOS battery. It still doesn't work. What should I do? I need master passwords for config password and admi password. Post the reply here or email me. PLS anyone help me. I have a lot of homework to do. Thank you. |
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It's actually pretty simple. Just call Dell and provide proof of ownership
and they'll give you the password. Tom "deepkill" wrote in message link.net... Hay everyone, I have a Dell latitude CPi laptop, which I bought from another person. Week ago, I wanted to do a clean installation; therefore, I formatted the hard drive from a boot disk and inserted the CDROM with the bootable windows CD in it. Someone has messed with the BIOS. I can't change the boot sequence. I've tried using latitude.exe and the other password identifiers. They didn't work. I disconnected the CMOS battery. It still doesn't work. What should I do? I need master passwords for config password and admi password. Post the reply here or email me. PLS anyone help me. I have a lot of homework to do. Thank you. |
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what's the tag number on the system?
"deepkill" wrote in message link.net... Hay everyone, I have a Dell latitude CPi laptop, which I bought from another person. Week ago, I wanted to do a clean installation; therefore, I formatted the hard drive from a boot disk and inserted the CDROM with the bootable windows CD in it. Someone has messed with the BIOS. I can't change the boot sequence. I've tried using latitude.exe and the other password identifiers. They didn't work. I disconnected the CMOS battery. It still doesn't work. What should I do? I need master passwords for config password and admi password. Post the reply here or email me. PLS anyone help me. I have a lot of homework to do. Thank you. |
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deepkill wrote:
Hay everyone, I have a Dell latitude CPi laptop, which I bought from another person. Week ago, I wanted to do a clean installation; therefore, I formatted the hard drive from a boot disk and inserted the CDROM with the bootable windows CD in it. Someone has messed with the BIOS. I can't change the boot sequence. I've tried using latitude.exe and the other password identifiers. They didn't work. I disconnected the CMOS battery. It still doesn't work. What should I do? I need master passwords for config password and admi password. Post the reply here or email me. PLS anyone help me. I have a lot of homework to do. From your statement, it obviously boots from a floppy disk. What about using the Windows setup disks to complete your OS installation? It won't solve your password problem, but it will get you up and running. |
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Errrrrrrrr F12 and choose boot from CD
"deepkill" wrote in message link.net... Hay everyone, I have a Dell latitude CPi laptop, which I bought from another person. Week ago, I wanted to do a clean installation; therefore, I formatted the hard drive from a boot disk and inserted the CDROM with the bootable windows CD in it. Someone has messed with the BIOS. I can't change the boot sequence. I've tried using latitude.exe and the other password identifiers. They didn't work. I disconnected the CMOS battery. It still doesn't work. What should I do? I need master passwords for config password and admi password. Post the reply here or email me. PLS anyone help me. I have a lot of homework to do. Thank you. |
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