Thinkpads Forum

Hey Guys, I've recently lent my T60 to a friend of mine, but he put on a Bios password and cannot remember the password.

I'm not trying to defeat the password, but since I have the original purchase receipt and am the original owner, I thought there was a way to send it to a Lenovo certified repair shop and, with proof of ownership of course, get them to remove it.

The only problem I am having is that I am not sure where to send it, or even how to open a service ticket for it. I've gone to the Lenovo website, but cannot find a way to fix the issue.

If anyone knows of the proper way to fix the issue, please let me know.

Thanks

I found this on another forum. I'm not sure if it works or not.


1) Shut down your thinkpad
2) Turn on your thinkpad and keep hitting the 'ESC' key until you see the windows boot screen
3) Hold down the power button to turn off the thinkpad.
NOTE: You MUST TURN THE MACHINE OFF....If you let it boot and then choose restart you will not get the option to clear the chip!
4)Turn on the thinkpad and press 'F1' to go into bios
5)Go to 'security' then 'IBM Security Chip'
6)Now there should be an additional option that will let you clear the embedded security chip.
7)Save and exit bios
Boot normally - you will get a screen saying the machine didn't shut down properly due to step 3 above.