I got the same problem with a inspiron 8000 with 595B assett tag. forgotten password :-( can you help with any further info or website to get PCB layout etc. Hope to hear soon. coastmarine@bigpond.com. cheers, bigal
>Everybody wants to get rich from free information.
>There are 4 square pads right next to the 24C02
>eeprom(Mine is Latitude C610 with 595B tag). Hmmmmm, I
>wonder what they are for? One goes to pin 5, one goes
>to pin6, and other 2 pads go to ground. I shorted one
>of them(pin 5 or 6 not sure) to ground,powered up, it
>said "Press Fn-X to reset..." and it reset the
>eeprom....NO MORE PASSWORD!!! Stop paying those
>thieves $30-$50 for an eeprom replacement!!!! IT DOES
>WORK. I did 3 laptops so far. I used similar method to
>fix ECM'd satellite reciever with 24lc16 eeprom.
