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I can get a used SONY PCG-GRV550 laptop in seemingly good condition
for a good price. But, the owner says the BIOS requires a password which does not know. Is there a good way to by-pass a BIOS password? Duke |
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On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:19:33 -0400, kony wrote:
Ask for the product serial number to see if Sony lists a registered owner. If that owner is not the seller, they might know the password, or it might be stolen. You might web search for a Sony backdoor password, or check for a battery and tiny pushbutton switch on the mainboard (not connecting to a switch on the outside of the case) to clear passwords, or a pair of solder pads labeled as such. I suspect now that it might be stolen. Else why would the seller be selling it because he cannot handle the password! I am going to forget this one. Thanks Duke |
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On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:49:03 -0400, kony wrote:
Sometimes people do forget, they might've set up the password when new and years went by without any need to remember the password, but to cover your own liability it would be good to determine if it's history is clean or if it had been reported stolen (within local vicinity of the seller) if it costs much. The other question is, is it locked from booting without the password, or is it only refusing to enter the bios without it? The former is much worse than the latter, often they're set up on auto-config and you wouldn't need to use the bios menus for much if it'll boot past them. I agree. This guy appears to be a vendor (EBay Item number: 380112269511). As I said, I think I should forget this one - although I would really like to find one like it. I have a model of that laptop that is locked in the BIOS and has bad keyboard keys to boot. I am looking to cannibalize one make another work. It may not be worth the effort. Thanks Duke |
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... On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:49:03 -0400, kony wrote: Sometimes people do forget, they might've set up the password when new and years went by without any need to remember the password, but to cover your own liability it would be good to determine if it's history is clean or if it had been reported stolen (within local vicinity of the seller) if it costs much. The other question is, is it locked from booting without the password, or is it only refusing to enter the bios without it? The former is much worse than the latter, often they're set up on auto-config and you wouldn't need to use the bios menus for much if it'll boot past them. I agree. This guy appears to be a vendor (EBay Item number: 380112269511). As I said, I think I should forget this one - although I would really like to find one like it. I have a model of that laptop that is locked in the BIOS and has bad keyboard keys to boot. I am looking to cannibalize one make another work. It may not be worth the effort. I suspect its from an office clearout or equivalent and the seller specialises in selling office clearout items. The fact that it doesn't include a hard drive or power supply would put me off, not the lack of a bios password (which will resolvable via the suggestions of Kony or VanguardLH). -- Brian Cryer www.cryer.co.uk/brian |
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On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:14:56 -0000, "Brian Cryer" not.here@localhost
wrote: I suspect its from an office clearout or equivalent and the seller specialises in selling office clearout items. The fact that it doesn't include a hard drive or power supply would put me off, not the lack of a bios password (which will resolvable via the suggestions of Kony or VanguardLH). Well - Well, I was thinking to cannibalize it to fix another PCG-GRV550 that was given to me. The latter has a hard and CD drive. I would need the keyboard and LCD screen in order to fix those things in the PCG-GRV550 that was given to me. The keyboard has keys that do not working, and the screen has a vertical line in the center (?bad pixels?). Duke |
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