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On Sun, 7 Aug 2005 12:11:15 -0500, "Del Cecchi" <dcecchi.nospam@att.net>
wrote:
>
>"daytripper" <day_trippr@REMOVEyahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:0c7cf19glf9m6s761543v8f2ut9b5hv6g0@4ax.com...
>> On Sun, 07 Aug 2005 01:41:42 -0400, Tony Hill
>> <hilla_nospam_20@yahoo.ca>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>On 6 Aug 2005 18:55:00 -0700, SiRkNiGhT115@hotmail.com wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hello,
>>>> I just a brought a IBM T30 off the streets !
>>>
>>>LOL.. Yeah, I saw one of those too.. some guy selling it "almost-new"
>>>out of the back of a van, great bargain too! :>
>>>
>>>> I am going to tell the
>>>>truths ! I am not going to make anything up! Well, when I boot up the
>>>>computer it is lock! It show a symbol of a computer and a lock. Is
>>>>there a way to go around this and bypass the password so I can login??
>>>>the Thinkpad looks very good so I am wondering if someone can help me
>>>>out?? Let me know !
>>>
>>>Unplug it, remove the battery and open it up. Find the CMOS battery
>>>and remove it. Press the power button a few times, then leave it for
>>>half an hour. Put everything back together and your power-on password
>>>should be cleared.
>>>
>> [snipped]
>>
>> Not likely. ThinkPads use an eeprom mounted on the motherboard; bios,
>> hard
>> disk and/or supervisor passwords aren't going to go away, ever. And if
>> you
>> think erasing the eeprom will help, you'll be the proud owner of a
>> doorstop.
>>
>> This guy can help for a quite reasonable fee, but requires one to be
>> handy
>> with a soldering iron (or know someone who is) as you have to cobble
>> together
>> a null modem rs232-to-I2C convertor tool (for lack of a better name) to
>> be
>> able to dump the contents of the eeprom and interpret it correctly.
>>
>> I was that someone for my sister after she recovered the ThinkPad that
>> had
>> been stolen from her while she was in the hospital. The cops eventually
>> caught
>> the bastid and recovered the TP, but he'd enabled passwords on
>> everything.
>>
>> So I built the convertor, ran this guy's application on my own laptop,
>> dumped
>> the eeprom and sent the dump file to the guy, and he emailed me back
>> the
>> passwords...
>>
>> http://www.ja.axxs.net/unlock/
>>
>> cheers
>
>And the reason you are helping some jerk that admits to buying stolen
>property is?
To illustrate just how screwed this guy is if he doesn't have the skill set to
perform an actual resurrection?
Otherwise, it only took a few minutes to Google up that site back when I
needed it....and the reality is nothing I said or didn't say would see that
laptop back to its rightful owner...the deed is long done...