As I stated in the original post …I already soldered wires from the adapter to the chip to power it. Still not reading any legitimate data. (Unless the chip is now actually blank, which I doubt very much.)

Hi,
I have been given a Dell Latitude from a family member that I'm trying to recover into a useable laptop, as it's currently password protected and completely locked down. I have tried to obtain a viable password from [URL]https://beta.bios-pw.org/[/URL] using the laptop serial number (with suffix xxxxxxx-8FC8) but nothing would work for me. So now I am trying to read the current BIOS off the device before attempting to follow the guidelines on this forum to refresh the BIOS to something that works again. However, I'm having real problems reading the existing BIOS from the chip as it's...