Dell 760 stuck on ide page asking for forgotten password

riider November 25, 2016 at 16:02:37

Changing the battery removed any password & reset the BIOS to the defaults. Your system doesn't have an IDE HDD, it has SATA. You need to reconfigure ALL the BIOS settings. http://www.dell.com/downloads/emea/... message edited by riider

I thank you for a very speedy reply to my problem. But my desk top will not let me do anything at all.

ijack November 26, 2016 at 01:40:22

This is a common problem with Dells. Google "automatic ide configuration page Dell" for a large number of suggestions. Likely as not you just have to configure the BIOS having lost the configuration when you changed the battery.