Power on password/Supervisor Password

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Nickhe · #1 Post by **Nickhe** » Sat May 14, 2005 8:57 pm

Hi,

I bought an used TPad T41 from someone in school. It worked great while it worked until I pressed the "Access IBM" blue button. I then got locked out by the power on password, and possibly HDD password as well.

After some googling, I was led to your forum. Do any of you know of ways to resolve this? My research on the web indicates one solution as buying another security chip with PRS (password recovery service) from Password Cracker, Inc (($145) as one solution. Nortek Computers, Ltd. offers a solution for $95 as well.

Are there other solutions?

Thanks.

jkirch · #2 Post by **jkirch** » Sun May 15, 2005 5:46 am

Well, the only advice I can give is to go to the person you bought the Thinkpad from and ask him for the password(s).
If he doesn't know then teh Thinkpad might be stolen.
In that case you will not get any advice from the good people on this board on how to remove the password.

We all love our Thinkpads and don't want them to be stolen.

Cheers,
Jens

Plinkerton · #3 Post by **Plinkerton** » Sun May 15, 2005 12:41 pm

Yeah just ask him. That's gotta be the easiest way. People here aren't too keen throwing the knowledge around about to break thru the passwords... Ya know?

-Plink-

kho-tele · #4 Post by **kho-tele** » Mon May 30, 2005 5:58 am

..... and it isn't possible to break the password(s) ...

Plinkerton · #5 Post by **Plinkerton** » Mon May 30, 2005 12:04 pm

Well, it is possible isn't it? He already mentioned it in his post, and I've heard that there is some way to do it.

Steve007 · #6 Post by **Steve007** » Mon May 30, 2005 4:14 pm

jkirch wrote:We all love our Thinkpads

It's juts a load of moulded plastic and silicon. I can't quite say I'm in love with mine

Plinkerton · #7 Post by **Plinkerton** » Mon May 30, 2005 4:26 pm

Yeah, but this load of molded plastic and whatnot does a whole lot of things for us.

It manages almost everything a lot of us do on a daily basis.

I write my papers on it, I study with it, it manages all my music, gives me porn to look at...

(hypothetically of course. It COULD give me porn to look at. If I was into that.)

Let's me hack into my neighbors stuff... (again, hypothetical)

It keeps me connected with many people that I know.

And, it looks kickass while it's doing it.

So, while I'm not IN LOVE with my Thinkpad, I definitely LOVE it.

e4services · #8 Post by **e4services** » Sun Nov 27, 2005 12:08 pm

Did you ever get a resolution on this? Did you try one of the mentioned vendors? I have that same issue

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