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I need a latitude c510/c610 guru..Please:)
Bought the laptop at an electrical surplus stuff place in Sac. No Ram or Hard drive. Not a problem. Had a 40 gig drv. and bought some ram. Installed xp pro. All is well..
But.. The cmos setup is not accessable due to previous owner setting admin password. And the time is set to Afganistan time. And Windows doesn't seem to be able to over write it. And alas.. The unit has no floppy drive and the battery doesn't take a charge. So my question is. Can I place the flash utility in the C:\windows subdirectory and run it from the cmd. prompt using the /wipeclean argument? Or do I need to place the file in the actual root of the "c:\" and run it from there.? All advise is greatly appreciated.
Saintron of Isleton Ca.
You will need to contact Dell to get the sequence to clear the CMOS. Now the problem will be the system is not in your name and I can bet the ownership has not been transfered. This kind of puts you between a rock and hardplace as to being able to access the bios.
husky0894
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Posted March 22nd, 2009 10:00
If you need to remove the BIOS password, the only way to do it is to have the registered owner contact Dell for the master password. No flash will clear the password.
Presumably, you don't know who owns the system and can't do that, so the other option is to replace the mainboard.
http://www.parts-people.com/index.php?action=item&id=1067