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I found this Dell inspiron 5100 laying around my shop, so since the guy who owned it is gone and had given up on it, i decided to give it a go.
It won't boot from either the hard drive or the cdrom. I tried a few different disks, still no. Replaced the drives themselves, still no. When i power it on, it posts and then shows a blinking cursor at the top of the screen, and refuses to boot. So then i thought it might be a bios setting set wrong. so i go in, and it's locked with an admin password. then i disconnected the cmos battery, but the password is still there.
Any ideas on whats wrong or how to get rid of the admin password?
It won't boot from either the hard drive or the cdrom. I tried a few different disks, still no. Replaced the drives themselves, still no. When i power it on, it posts and then shows a blinking cursor at the top of the screen, and refuses to boot. So then i thought it might be a bios setting set wrong. so i go in, and it's locked with an admin password. then i disconnected the cmos battery, but the password is still there.
Any ideas on whats wrong or how to get rid of the admin password?
