Dell Latitude D630

[River Valley Computer]

Had a customer bring in a Dell D630 in pristine shape. Has Win 7 on it but will not load off HDD - comes up with 'Windows needs to restart" and to select Safe/Safe with network/Continue - then reboots.

The customer is 84 years old and he has a special program on it that ties to a cutting machine that cuts leather key fobs he makes and gives away to children. It interfaces RS232. His 10 yr old great grandson played with his computer last week end and somehow put a BIOS password on it. Has anyone had any success in resetting BIOS PW. There is a program we have used in the 'dark ages' called "CMOSPWD" but it's on a CD and we can't tell the BIOS to boot from CD. When we push F12 the CD is not an option. Obviously can't run Linux since can't run off CD drive.

It appears his GGson got into the BIOS and changed things.

We'd tell him to junk it but to program is not available anymore and he has no CD with it so we need to try to save it.

Thanks in advance. (I knew we should have opened a bar instead of a computer repair shop.)

 

[NviGate Systems]

http://www.dell.com/support/article...-your-dell-laptop--built-before-2004-?lang=EN

That's only for old models and sounds like yours might fit the bill?

 

[Porthos]

(I knew we should have opened a bar instead of a computer repair shop.)

Some days I wish I had a Bar IN my shop.

 

[fincoder]

We'd tell him to junk it but to program is not available anymore and he has no CD with it so we need to try to save it.

If you don't have any success with other methods, just buy another cheap D630 from ebay and clone the drive or just swap them.

 

[Markverhyden]

D630 is circa '06-07. You can pickup a D630 for under $150 on eBay.

 

[Altster]

Had a customer bring in a Dell D630 in pristine shape. Has Win 7 on it but will not load off HDD - comes up with 'Windows needs to restart" and to select Safe/Safe with network/Continue - then reboots.

The customer is 84 years old and he has a special program on it that ties to a cutting machine that cuts leather key fobs he makes and gives away to children. It interfaces RS232. His 10 yr old great grandson played with his computer last week end and somehow put a BIOS password on it. Has anyone had any success in resetting BIOS PW. There is a program we have used in the 'dark ages' called "CMOSPWD" but it's on a CD and we can't tell the BIOS to boot from CD. When we push F12 the CD is not an option. Obviously can't run Linux since can't run off CD drive.

It appears his GGson got into the BIOS and changed things.

We'd tell him to junk it but to program is not available anymore and he has no CD with it so we need to try to save it.

Thanks in advance. (I knew we should have opened a bar instead of a computer repair shop.)

I've had some success with this in the past for DELL Laptops... Make sure to follow the directions to the "T" to get good results.

http://dogber1.blogspot.com/2009/05/table-of-reverse-engineered-bios.html

 

[mikeroq]

https://bios-pw.org/

 

[GTP]

Just pull the battery and CMOS battery for an hour. It should clear all the BIOS settings back to default.

 

[GTP]

It appears his GGson got into the BIOS and changed things.

Can you not simply ask the GGSon for the password?

 

[River Valley Computer]

Can you not simply ask the GGSon for the password?

He evidently is like 5 or so years old. Shouldn't been playing with it but you know how 5 yr olds can be 10 places at one time.,The man is on a VERY limited income and we are doing it for him free (has always been a good customer when he had his real estate business).

We have tried about 5 or six other HDDs and none of them even think of booting but his will boot to "fail to start" screen and then reboot over and over.

 

[GTP]

Have you tried pulling the battery and CMOS battery for an hour?
Make sure it's unplugged from the "power brick" as well.

 

[GTP]

If the GGSon is only "5" think about what he would use as a password. Favourite toy? Ice cream? Pets name? Best friends name?
Mum's/Dads/Granddads name? Sister/Brothers names? Imaginary friend? Dinosaur? McDonalds? etc etc

 

[River Valley Computer]

If the GGSon is only "5" think about what he would use as a password. Favourite toy? Ice cream? Pets name? Best friends name?
Mum's/Dads/Granddads name? Sister/Brothers names? Imaginary friend? Dinosaur? McDonalds? etc etc

If the GGSon is only "5" think about what he would use as a password. Favourite toy? Ice cream? Pets name? Best friends name?
Mum's/Dads/Granddads name? Sister/Brothers names? Imaginary friend? Dinosaur? McDonalds? etc etc

Or maybe a combination of the 26 letters of the alphabet - yea, right.

 

[nlinecomputers]

Wait what? A 5-year-old managed to both get INTO the BIOS AND set an admin password? I've got some beachfront property in Tucson...

 

[dannyict]

maybe try this one http://biospassword.eu/dell-free-passwords