Could you (or anyone ) please PLEASE reveal the formula or procedure whose input is the serial number and whose output is the various part numbers of the inverter and inverter cable (and any other bits of this assembly).? It's not possible sustainable to imagine that you will be able to do the lookup for everyone. It's fabulously kind what you've done so far. I thank you in advance for doing this last bit as well.

Please Help a complete hardware noob: I lent my xps 13 L322x to a nephew for the weekend -- and the idiot put a BIOS password on the machine (to "protect it from his brother") -- and now i have an expensive paperweight., because he can't produce the correct password! (yea, right, i know). My understanding is that it's possible to short out some pin(s) on the flash memory to reset any BIOS password. Questions:

1. Is the Winbond 25Q64F chip shown in step 14 the right chip to short out?

2. Could some clueful and kind soul look at the datasheet and tell me what I need to do to reset this chip? By a general google search I've seen instructions that say "ground pin 2" and others which say "short pins 3 and 6". Which is correct? and do i just do this, or do i need to do it and then power up the laptop? Or do it with the power on?

(I don't mind if i reset it to completely factory defaults pristine. I made a complete backup because I feared trouble --but this?!?! plz help :)

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