[dba-Tech] Thinkpad issues

Hi Gustav,
I called the support line for the TP Z60t and the fellow said there is no
way to do this.

I posted a question on the Lenovo ThinkPad forum and haven't received a
single reply. Apparently they assume the laptop has been stolen and do not
recover these laptops if the password is forgotten.

I really don't want to spend a couple of hours and $100 trying to hack into
a 4 year old laptop, only to make one little mistake and ruin it in the
process!

This incident has sealed my opinion of buying (or supplying) ThinkPad's in
the future. It's a shame too, because they are really nice notebooks.

John B.


-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 5:00 AM
To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Thinkpad issues

Hi John

Well, then we must be talking about the supervisor password as described
here:

  http://sodoityourself.com/hacking-ibm-thinkpad-bios-password/

You can see if you can locate that chip on your machine.

We wouldn't go this far with a client's legitimate machine but turn it in to
the service shop were they must have a prepared tool to handle this.

/gustav