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Date Posted: 01:46:38 02/21/03 Fri
Author: Kozmik Kat
Subject: Re: dell latitude password - anyone already shorted the eeprom??
In reply to: tomas 's message, "dell latitude password - anyone already shorted the eeprom??" on 12:49:45 02/20/03 Thu

>Hi,
>has anyone already successfully shorted / grounded his
>eeprom like you can read it here in the forum on his
>dell latitude laptop (c600 or c610)?
>Posts like "pin 5 or 6 , not sure" or "pin 6 , pin 7"
>just seem untrustworthy.
>Following my last call to Dell's Customer Support,
>there are really masterpasswords for the -595B models
>based on each one's service tag, but you need an
>original bill for that you can proof you're the real
>owner.
>Has anyone a bill he could email me, so that I could
>print it out or something else??
>thx for any post

The "safest" way to erase teh passwords (if Dell cant help you) is to replace the eeprom. Shorting out pins is highly dangerouse and we have had 3 laptops in that the customer has shorted out the weong pins and now the laptops are useless!
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