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DfE Dell BIOS Password.

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TheRobins

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I have ours here, the passwords were set per order, so if you had one batch of Dells they would have 1 BIOS password, if you then had another set of Dell's they would be another password and so on. We had batches of Dell's and HP's and each order had a different password based on the order number. However, the last 2 batches we had didnt have any BIOS passwords at all.

 

Not sure what you want to do with these devices, they are awful and so slow I got rid very quickly.

Tones

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I sent you a PM with what our password was at the time. They were done in batches as noted by TheRobins so may not be the same.
MrEprise

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I have ours here, the passwords were set per order, so if you had one batch of Dells they would have 1 BIOS password, if you then had another set of Dell's they would be another password and so on. We had batches of Dell's and HP's and each order had a different password based on the order number. However, the last 2 batches we had didnt have any BIOS passwords at all.

 

Not sure what you want to do with these devices, they are awful and so slow I got rid very quickly.

 

That might have been true with your batches, but our batch of HPs shared a single BIOS password with HPs that went to other schools. Imagine my surprise when purchasing a motherboard replacement for one from eBay (where a Student decided they didn't want to do the whole home learning thing and poured coffee over the keyboard) where the seller listed it as having a BIOS password set and I thought "I bet I know what that is". Sure enough, it turned out to be set to the same password as set on all our HPs (both 250 G7 & 255 G7 models.)

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jthompson

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I was just about to reply with this tip. I only discovered it recently but it worked a treat for me for a Latitude 3190 2-in-1, although not one originally supplied via DfE (that shouldn't make a difference). I did have to read the instructions carefully as I needed to enter the "System Number" from the device's BIOS password prompt, which is the Dell service tag plus a few extra characters, rather than just the service tag.

 

Devices have a manufacturer-set master password that can be used to recover BIOS access. This varies from model to model as described here, so YMMV for other brands/models.

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eg1996

eg1996

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Hi! Very similar issue.

 

I have the BIOS password, but I don’t have the local admin one! I’ve tried using no password and it says it’s disabled. Can anyone help please?

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CHiLL

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And once you've unlocked and re-installed Windows to fix an issue, how do you then ascertain the Windows Key? :/

There is no sticker on the bottom of the laptop :(

I've used a specific sweet/candy-themed tool in the past that would be able to provide the product key from within Windows, but only if it was committed to the BIOS. It's been many years since I've used it and I cannot speak for it's reputation/safety, so use it at your own risk I guess.

Norphy

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And once you've unlocked and re-installed Windows to fix an issue, how do you then ascertain the Windows Key? :/

There is no sticker on the bottom of the laptop :(

 

If there's a product key baked into the BIOS, the Windows installation will usually detect this and automatically activate itself. You shouldn't need to enter a product key or activate it.

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Fazza

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And once you've unlocked and re-installed Windows to fix an issue, how do you then ascertain the Windows Key? :/

There is no sticker on the bottom of the laptop :(

 

On modern computers the key should be stored in the BIOS so it gets activated at the point of being on the internet during or after installation of the OS. Keys haven't been on stickers on the case for a while now. If in doubt, swap out the storage device for something else and install Windows and then check to confirm it's registered/activated.

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Fazza

Fazza

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This found us the key then we activated against it and all is now well :)

 

wmic path softwareLicensingService get OA3xOriginalProductKey

 

Did you have to type that key in then as that's a bit unusual to have to do that these days (just asking out of curiosity)?

kennysarmy

kennysarmy

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Did you have to type that key in then as that's a bit unusual to have to do that these days (just asking out of curiosity)?

 

Yes, device was reporting not activated, ran the above command then used the resulting key to activate windows.

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bigjoe

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I'm having the same issue I've only just taken over the school and they have all got Admin password set to the BIOS so I can't PXE boot them.

 

Please feel free to DM me.

Homer

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Use this: https://bios-pw.org/

 

But you will *need* to use a keyboard to do the CTRL+ENTER

 

We use it all the time for these, not because of the DFE (we did get all of our passwords) but because one of my predecessors didn't bother to note any passwords down...

jthompson

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are you saying you need a USB keybourd or the one that is on the laptop as i've tried the laptop keyboard and with all the passwords from https://bios-pw.org/ none of them worked.

 

My experience with a Dell 3190 using that site was that I needed to enter the "System Number" from the device's BIOS password prompt, which is the Dell service tag plus a few extra characters, rather than just the service tag. Only then did a working password get generated.

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