Erase "power on password"

[jean-paul martell]

hi,
i have Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Laptop,i forgot the power on password,If anyone knows of any other way of recovering the password or some one help me by showing which chip to shotcircut on the board to kill the password please help .i searched the net and got solutions like removing cmos battery overnight. i tried this and it failed to work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[deoWo]

hi,
There's no chip on the Motherboard, for "shorting method". but there's way to erase the password on this laptop, similar to dell master password.

[RoninBlade]

As long as the stringent security option was not selected in the bios, the steps are as follows. If stringent security was enabled, only replacing the whole board would work according to the maintenance & service manual.

• remove power cord and battery
• remove the keyboard
• unplug the rtc battery for about five minutes
• plugin the rtc battery once again
• plugin the power cord, but leave the battery outside its bay.
• switch the notebook on
• now the bios was cleared
• enter bios and restore to factory defaults

[T.J.]

Both the power-on and setup passwords are set through Computer Setup (F10 Setup).
When only the power-on password is used, it is required to access the Computer Setup utility and any other information in the system. When both the power-on and setup passwords are used, only the setup password will give you access to Computer Setup.
When both passwords are set, the setup password can also be used in place of the poweron password."

[Rawko]

hi,
Do you know how to remove your keyboard? You should pull it off and inspect it make sure it's clean, resecure it and try it again.