Dell E6430 admin password bios problems

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Dell E6430 admin password bios problems

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Tried everything from bios-pw.org and no go. Its the pits when people cant remember admin bios passwords let alone use them in the first place.
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Re: E6430 admin password a problems

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It has a bios password, I take it?
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Yes a bios admin password. Cant do a thing with the bios.
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It use to be you could clear the cmoa and youd be fine but its a pain the way they do it now.
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You could still fix it, although it would require you to reload the BIOS via a physical flasher so that it would truly wipe EVERYTHING and set a from the factory bios image back on the machine.
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I tried flashing from a USB stick and from within Windows and neither would work.
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No, this would be using a chip flasher w/ clips...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y06x1f22B0
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Ill take a look at it.
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I've used them before. They're not bad to use, the hardest part is sometimes getting a dump of a good bios (need the FULL bios image dump).
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Gave the laptop back to him as its useless in its present condition and simply didnt care to fuss any more with it.
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