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From: ~misfit~ on 29 Nov 2009 05:00
Somewhere on teh intarwebs Barry Watzman wrote:>
> ~misfit~ wrote:
>> "All laptops" have the pads? Now that I didn't know.
>
> Let me modify "all" to "substantially all". Absolutes always have
> exceptions. But all retail/consumer laptops have some means to reset
> the password, and often more than one. Fundamentally, the password is
> stored in a flash memory chip, which is most easily dealt with
> directly, e.g. erase the chip's contents.

You should get onto forums.thinkpads and let some of the folks there know
about this. There are a bunch of folks who have binned mobos due to being
locked out of them.
--
Cheers,
Shaun.

"Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's
warm for the rest of his life." Terry Pratchet, 'Jingo'.


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