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Dead Fingerprint Reader?
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 12:48 pm
by wswartzendruber
I was using my ThinkPad when all the sudden it went black and froze up. Upon hard rebooting, it prompted me for a fingerprint (like normal) but immediately failed three times and halted. Quickly pressing <Esc> to manually enter the password allowed me through, as did going into the BIOS and disabling fingerprint authentication. When using Linux to evaluate a fingerprint scan, it immediately fails.
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 10:01 am
by wswartzendruber
I'm bumping this post hoping someone with some helpful knowledge notices it. I don't feel like coughing out $100 for a new palmrest.
Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 11:34 am
by wswartzendruber
This topic is about to go on page 2 so I'm bumping it one last time.
Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 2:56 pm
by caponenut
Did you try repair when reinstalling fingerprint reader software?
I had a similar problem and reinstalling the software got it going again.
Hope it helps
Mario
Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 7:06 pm
by wswartzendruber
caponenut wrote:Did you try repair when reinstalling fingerprint reader software?
I had a similar problem and reinstalling the software got it going again.
Hope it helps
Mario
As in to repair the fingerprint software installation? This problem occurrs during boot, in Windows, and in Linux.
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 3:00 am
by ryengineer
Biometric chip gone bad perhaps.
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 3:19 am
by NathanA
There is an option in the BIOS that allows you to wipe the slate clean in the fingerprint reader's memory. Why don't you reinitialize it using that feature in the BIOS, and then re-train it and see how it works after that?
-- Nathan
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 9:10 am
by wswartzendruber
I did already. Screw it. I'm ordering a new palmrest.
You all get an A+ for effort.
