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A few months ago I bought a 2nd hand a30 from a guy who had it from his old job. I know it might have been an illegal transfer being property of his old employee, but I didnt think of that while buying it, and I was still a minor back then (turned 18 in december).
It worked good, I had to enter a pass everytime it booted, and I aquired that from the previous owner, but one day, my GPU started making blue and pink vertical lines throughout my screen and I couldnt get it up to the Win XP look on full 32bit-colors and resolution acceptable for proper use. So I thought, lets see if it got loose some way (took it out to college campus for some classes the first time) and I screwed open the panels of the ram and ethernet on the back. Kinda not seeing what I expected I just put it back together avoiding any unneccesary operations on the laptop.
No harm no foul I thought, so I booted the laptop again... BUMMER for some reason it says my CMOS time and date and some other error have to be fixed before booting, and here it comes... I have to get another (supervisor?) password. I' m 100% sure that the previous owner doesnt know the pass (hes kind of a noob at the computer, as I noticed during the transaction, plus he couldnt risk calling his old company I guess, trying to retrieve it
)So I tried my local pc shop, and they had it with them, according to them they got him open but didnt find a battery to detach from the mobo, so he had to call IBM, they said fixing the problem would cost me more than the buying price of the laptop (250euros >150 euros) and I could afford it, but I just wont pay almost double for fixing a 2nd hand laptop. So I was wondering, I scrolled the net and found a do it youtself.com walkthrough with hacking on to the bios chip and stuff, but I htink there has to be an easier way... does anyone of you guys know how to do it?
edit: To get things clear: it asks for a pass, I cant boot to windows, or I cant boot from a diskette/cdrom/hdd
