BIOS PASSWORD

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look under your keyboard. Dumbasses like yourself ALWAYS write their password on the bottom of their keyboards!

Good thing there is almost NEVER a reason to go into the bios, huh?

Or are you talking the password to BOOT they system? Guess you will have to ask the person you stole the system from.

If your computer does not respond to keyboard, mouse, or touch pad commands:

Press and hold the power button for at least 8 to 10 seconds until the computer turns off.

After the computer turns off, press the power button again to turn on the computer.

Please post back if you have any more problems or questions.

Take it to the Dell Service Agent and they will fix this problem.

This is a very good lesson to learn that Passwords do not simply appear and they need to be Backed Up for all the time that the computer is used. If you fail to suitably Backup your Passwords you simply have to pay to make the thing work again be that a computer or allowing access to a Secure Web Site. No Password no work.

It's really quite simple.

Col