Vostro 15 (5000 Series) S\N -E7A8 Locked bios

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  • Matff4
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    • Sep 2025
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    Vostro 15 (5000 Series) S\N -E7A8 Locked bios

    Hi, I have locked Vostro and Im trying to clear password flag from the bios dump but cant find anything closely related to what Im looking for in both vss stores (extracted via UEFI Tool).
    Could someone point to an offset or region where I should look to remove password lock?
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    Thanks in advance
  • m1ch43lzm
    Badcaps Veteran
    • Mar 2019
    • 628
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    https://www.badcaps.net/forum/troubl...23#post1622423

    3.4. Dell

    Dell laptops store the password in EC. However, some generators exist depending on the code suffix.
    See: https://beta.bios-pw.org/ .If the website is offline try: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://bios-pw.org/
    Note: All passwords must be entered with a US QWERTY Keyboard,you can use a USB one.
    Note: The 6FF1 suffix has a bug,use your service tag with the 1F5A or BF97 suffix instead,Example: 1234ABC-BF97 .
    Note: The list of examples does not include some other suffix codes that do work,such as E7A8 .
    Note: If the BF97 suffix does not work try it with the E7A8 suffix instead.
    Note: There is no publicly available 8FC8 generator available at the moment.
    The CTRL-ENTER-ENTER keystroke after the password only applied to laptops with a suffix (xxxxxxx-8FC8 for example), until Dell also required it in some laptops using System Disable 16-Hex algorithm, on which only the Password+ENTER was needed at first and then in some models you needed the CTRL-ENTER-ENTER to properly delete the system passwords, otherwise the password would remain SET upon the automatic system reboot if just doing Password+ENTER until the proper CTRL-ENTER-ENTER keystroke was performed in certain models.
    8FC8 Patcher software: https://www.badcaps.net/forum/troubl...l-8fc8-patcher

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