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  • joejoepop
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    • Oct 2025
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    Dell Pro Max 16 Premium MA16250 - Bios Admin is locked - help

    Dell Pro Max 16 Premium MA16250

    Code is J2G7VB4-8FC8

    I tried using an online password generator and got nothing useful.

    Bios admin is locked restricting me from even booting from a USB to install Windows please help I hope I haven't bricked this thing.

    My organization puts the clamps down so hard on our stuff that we can't install any of the software we need, so frustrating. Our IT won't share anything with us.
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    • LBTT1121
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      #2
      Originally posted by joejoepop
      Dell Pro Max 16 Premium MA16250

      Code is J2G7VB4-8FC8

      I tried using an online password generator and got nothing useful.

      Bios admin is locked restricting me from even booting from a USB to install Windows please help I hope I haven't bricked this thing.

      My organization puts the clamps down so hard on our stuff that we can't install any of the software we need, so frustrating. Our IT won't share anything with us.
      post the original contents of the bios chip
      The bios chip must be unsoldered from the board before writing or reading..
      do not use the clip, you may have errors..if you do not have anything to unsolder it with,
      solder wires between the programmer and the bios chip..

      you need an SPI programmer

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        • joejoepop
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          I think that you're saying this system is so new that no one has decoded this before, there are no bios password patchers for this bios yet and without running a hardware programmer to decode the bios chip and post the contents, no one will be able to figure this out.

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            • LBTT1121
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              #4
              Originally posted by joejoepop
              I think that you're saying this system is so new that no one has decoded this before, there are no bios password patchers for this bios yet and without running a hardware programmer to decode the bios chip and post the contents, no one will be able to figure this out.
              Badcaps-- FREE-- upload BIos --another help you

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