IBM r61's- a few questions

[david_thinkpad]

This had been a problem for this other laptop I have been using for a few years now. Since I can still use it I never really worried about it. So this other laptop is working but it had a supervisor password on it, at the time the ebay refurb reseller guy gave me like $150 back and I was to fix. Again... many, many moons have passed since late 2007-to mid 2008.

According to most I found online I have to hit the SCL and SDA of a ATMEL 24RF08 chip on the mainboard of the laptop. Which seems easy to do and there is an austrailian guy that has a little board that apparently I can do this for like $90 or so (press the button, blast the password, problem goes away).

or....

1.) Since I am already there and may have to solder anyway, why not just replace the chip? Can that be done or is there other pitfalls to replacing the ATMEL chip all together IBM put in? if I just de-solder the chip off the board and leave it off can I do that? That would dystroy any hope of storing a supervisor password ever again I suppose. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Thoughts here please...


2.) Another thing... and back to the 7732 that went belly up on the BIOS. It seems also I could solder a new BIOS chip on the mainboard of the old laptop (they would program it with a current ibm r61 bios that would work per them.) any downsides to doing that? That chip was like $30 at most.


Been meaning to solder something as of late... LOL!

Anyway, thoughts and answers are always appreciated.

[RealBlackStuff]

Apart from the forum not allowing any discussions about passwords, removal of that chip will NOT get your machine going again, as it is also used for storing other system data.
Replacing the BIOS chip on the other machine is an option, but is not guaranteed to work.
Usually the BIOS and the password chip are a matched pair...