After nearly 50 minutes waiting on the phone, I talked to IBM Support and was able to get logged on again. Here is what we went through (as best I recall from my notes). 1) we cleared the security chip.. - power on with the escape key down, also pressing PF1 at the right moment (to enter setup). - o...

No real progress here. Windows System Restore is out as it is not enabled. Seemed like everytime I did an update, it ate 1G, and besides I'd never seen a problem I could not uninstall my way out of ... until now. Lesson learned. PC Doctor Quickscan had no effect. Same with the battery removal/30 sec...

I recently picked up CSS V7 while running Software Installer. I previously had V6 installed. Now I cannot logon except in safe mode. After the install of V7, the next time I rebooted I got the expected: +---------- | Please Wait .... | Checking the status of the embedded security chip. +---------- T...