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by dannyboy115

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Hey I have a Dell Computer I bought from a friend its a dell dimension 8200

the second i turn it on, it pops up the dell logo then says
TYPE PASSWORD: and press
to leave password enabled
to continue and disable password

and I have tried a million things to get this unblocked?
my friend said there is a battery that i can take out and put back in, MSDOS memory they said will be gone, I dont want to lose any files on the computer, but I seriously dont know what I am doing....

EDIT:
I dont want stupid comments, I want the files cause it has stuff from a long time ago, files about quicken, and microsoft word and just easy things, but if i reporgram it, i dont have the discs....i just want to remove the password....
i think i might know how now...

HELP?

dannyboy115@hotmail.com

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by bizzo

Email the guy you bought it off, and ask him what the password is.
If he doesn't know it, you've probably bought a stolen machine.

If you've never managed to get past this password, then why don't you want to lose and files that are on the computer? Surely you don't know what's on it.

by older mycroft

Your post appears on the surface to be a light-hearted account of the difficulties you are experiencing attempting to get past the BIOS password. You have made NO MENTION at all of how angry and incensed you are, having spent good money on something that doesn't work!

I'm tempted to ask why?

How can you say that "[i]someone said there is a battery that i can take out and put back in[/i]" - [b]someone ...?[/b] - WHO???

Also, as Bizzo said, how do you know what files are on the hard drive if you've never been able to start the system ? - Maybe someone told you [u]that[/u] too!

If you've got a BIOS password you've just bought a pig-in-a-poke!

by jdclyde

If you have just bought the system, there are not any files you would be worried about losing.

And even a simpleton like yourself would know to contest the paypall payment AND trash the seller if they gave you a system with a BIOS lock.

Go F yourself dannybitch.
[i]
"Not everyone deserves to have their head crushed, just 99.99999% of them."

by older mycroft

Those two little whatever-they-are's in yer avatar ain't cuttin' the Chrimbo mustard at the mo'...

...still, gave me a good laugh! :D

by jdclyde

Three bears that I had used to decorate my tree with last year. If you look, you see a third brown bear with the white shirt.

And I WAS being VERY cheery. That is as kind and understanding I can BE to a scumbag lying thief! :D
[i]

"crush your head! crush your head!" ;\

by dannyboy115

Thats wasnt nice at all, and it was a friend of mine and he doesnt know the password....
he forgot it....

-daniel

by the scummy one

isnt much of a friend to sell you a system that he cannot get to boot up!

Also, what about these 'files' that you need, that youhave never seen?

Yes DannyB1tch, bend over and let Compaq take over :^0 :^0

Call Comapaq and work with their support staff to direct you to the recovery cd site.

How stupid can you be, buying a notebook that doesnt work, from a friend who just tells you how to make it work (but they never did)....

Hey, heres an idea. I've got 3 (yes 3) notebooks here that I wanna sell. They worked last time that I tried them (around '97). Send payments to URASUCKER@PAYPAL.COM
Or to
URALYINGTHEIVINGBASTARD@PAYPAL.COM

by jdclyde

so I don't have to be such.

The files on that laptop are not yours, by your own admission, thus you have no rights to them.

If they are quicken files, you are trying to get someone elses personal financial information, which makes you an even lower life form than I had originally thought.

Either it is all a lie, or you were taken advantage of by a "friend". you have taken the lies further with this STUPID excuse for why you think you should have access to the files.

Away with you knave. Your smelling up the place.

by older mycroft

Short-term memory loss!

Followed by eh, erm, whossit called?...

Tis the season to be jolly (but not steaming drunk and selling dodgy gear to friends).

- You're right "that wasn't nice at all" but it WAS truthful!

by maniacman

Your making up the lame excuse will not result in us helping you crack a BIOS password. We don't do that here on the grounds that we are ethical IT pros.

by dumphrey

will have some basic hardware and software classes you can take, it should only take a semester or so.

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