The Mystery of 'Manufacturing Mode' - Dell Motherboards

[kodinabeel]

we can enter any letters or word but its not saved after restarting it ask manufacturing mode active

[Tesla]

Entering all CAPS? Is that a zero or letter? I wonder if there is a check-digit/hash on serial? If you just want it to go away (don't care what serial number is) you could try 1234567 ... because I've seen evaluation-units come to me that way before.

[Tesla]

i have an issue dell optiplex 5480aio (GLTQ073) cant save serial number manufaturing mode doesnt dissappire. orginal bios lost i downloaded from internet any solution ?

Seems to do some self-checks before it releases. Read screen carefully. Did you re-connect CMOS battery?

[kodinabeel]

i have an issue dell optiplex 5480aio (GLTQ073) cant save serial number manufaturing mode doesnt dissappire. orginal bios lost i downloaded from internet any solution ?

[Tesla]

I entered the Service-Tag and it exited Manufacturing Mode properly. The laptop is working fine.

[Tesla]

How about some pics?

These are from a Dell XPS-15 I am working on. It's been dead for a while, but it's looking better now.

I'm in the USA, and disabling the ME did not sound correct, so I just left the options on these defaults.

[geethmadu]

Hi All,

I have a dell Ins 3501 with Service tag : 192DSD3. I flashed both 8MB and 16MB bins. I even put the correct service tag on to the BIOS. But " Manufacture Mode Active" message still appears on the post. Can someone advice what to do next? it has been a headache.

Thank you very much

[eenee]

I found a solution, but not me, someone edit my bios file again and it worked just fine. So the problem is related to a BIOS fix, I don't know where exactly but that's the only way to fix it.
Will be back if any new information collected.

Can you post both your old and new bios, so we can compare the changes

[Ghost18_07]

Great thread, this a mystery as you said, and you are right, i have the same problem, i have this manufacturer mode sentence and it says to just click Alt+F to stop it, but it won't even if i ty to enter the service tag, because the service tag gone after i save the changes .

So if anyone has a solution for this ? or i just need to try to fi the BIOS file again ?

I found a solution, but not me, someone edit my bios file again and it worked just fine. So the problem is related to a BIOS fix, I don't know where exactly but that's the only way to fix it.
Will be back if any new information collected.

[Argento7]

Adding some information

[Ghost18_07]

Great thread, this a mystery as you said, and you are right, i have the same problem, i have this manufacturer mode sentence and it says to just click Alt+F to stop it, but it won't even if i ty to enter the service tag, because the service tag gone after i save the changes .

So if anyone has a solution for this ? or i just need to try to fi the BIOS file again ?

[qayyum786]

post your backup file

[Vusal]

I replaced EC region with the other one but I did not get any results.

[vbpablo]

Re: The Mystery of 'Manufacturing Mode' - Dell Motherboards

Hi everyone!

May I can find here the help that I need

I have a Dell G3 15 3500 that failed due to a short circuit (also with an expired guaranty), and the guys from the service did awful work, so I had to buy a 2nd-hand motherboard.

Once installed the MB, the notebook didn't turn on. So after we tried unsuccessfully to reprogram the BIOS, we opted to change the BIOS chips with the ones in the old MB (that looked ok and were recognized by the reprogrammed). The notebook turned on again, and we were even able to boot to windows... but as you can expect, it booted in manufacturing mode, and it's annoying (and maybe unsafe) to work with the notebook in that mode.

We found this post googling about the manufacturing mode, but as the notebook is dual BIOS, we don't know where and how we should edit the EC region data.

Also, we found a post on another website (https://winraid.level1techs.com/t/gu...lization/31277) that talk about a conflict involving intel engine (cs)me/cs(txe) regions data. That makes us think that the information contained within the EC chip could be related to the problem, but we're not entirely sure about that.

What do you suggest to fix the issue??

A friend is doing the BIOS magic; I'm just translating him, so feel free to correct me on anything you consider wrong.

[Ali5914]

Re: The Mystery of 'Manufacturing Mode' - Dell Motherboards

Thanks for the explanation Ali5914, this would make sense, I didn't realise that replacing the machines EC region with stock from an extracted BIOS image would cause the machine to boot into Manufacturing Mode.

You're Welcome.... Try doing it... If it is not happening then let me know. I will guide you on this.

[CapThatBrass]

Re: The Mystery of 'Manufacturing Mode' - Dell Motherboards

Thanks for the explanation Ali5914, this would make sense, I didn't realise that replacing the machines EC region with stock from an extracted BIOS image would cause the machine to boot into Manufacturing Mode.

[Ali5914]

Re: The Mystery of 'Manufacturing Mode' - Dell Motherboards

Hello Friend, absolutely this is possible to UNLOCK Manufacturing Mode in DELL machines. But there is some limitations. You can not unlock for all models. But whichever models completely rely on bios not on EC bios (Super IO), you can unlock those models by simply replacing EC region of the bios with STOCK EC RGN from downloaded EXE.

[volinakis]

Re: The Mystery of 'Manufacturing Mode' - Dell Motherboards

Thanks for copying and pasting the first paragraph that Google chucks out Volinakis.....

you are welcome! don't tell me that you need translation from English to English ... otherwise I don't understand why did you ask what is " Manufacturing Mode" and what it wants from you ...

[diif]

Re: The Mystery of 'Manufacturing Mode' - Dell Motherboards

It's a Dell thing. https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/e...facturing-mode

[CapThatBrass]

Re: The Mystery of 'Manufacturing Mode' - Dell Motherboards

Thanks for copying and pasting the first paragraph that Google chucks out Volinakis.....