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thechainsawman
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March 19th, 2006 20:00
manufacturing mode? no bios loading? help
i just soldered on a bios password chip successfully, but when i now power up the laptop there is about a 20 second (havent counted it) time where nothing happens just the lights turn on. i assume this is where the computer is searching for the bios and then after that the cpu fan starts, the dell bios loading screen comes up with nothing loaded and it quickley switches to manufacturing mode and tells me to get it out of manufacturing mode, press Fn-X when i do this nothing happens. then it goes to the administrative password screen and i just push enter and it works i guess that is what the chip was supposed to do? after this it switches back to manufacturing mode and then goes to windows. windows runs fine except the mobo speaker makes noise whenever i push a key.
please help, thanks a lot
please help, thanks a lot
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thechainsawman
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Posted March 20th, 2006 11:00
ok, i dont need to know the service tag already assigned to the laptop do i? all stickers were removed when it was purchased.
thanks a lotthechainsawman
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Posted March 20th, 2006 15:00
latitude d600- Enter 7 random numbers/Upper case letters. The laptop will then be a generic, as Dell will not recognize it as one of theirs, but you are already in that same position with no Service Tag installed. It may however restore normal operation. I would recommend you only set a HDD password-if any-because that way you can always replace it if your password gets misplaced
thechainsawman
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Posted March 20th, 2006 18:00
ok so just to doublecheck, i type ASSET-space-/-s-space-seven random numbers and uppercase letters?thechainsawman
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Posted March 20th, 2006 21:00
ERROR: Cannot Change the Asset/Serice Tag.
Please ensure the SETUP password is disabled.

leduke30
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Posted March 20th, 2006 00:00
Message Edited by leduke30 on 03-19-2006 08:30 PM