Q: My cousin has an older IBM Thinkpad from work (they were disposing of old gear) . It was used by someone who left the company . when he runs, there is a screen that asks for a password . since nobody in the company knows what the password for the old man had it there a way to reset the cmos or something, so he is able to use the laptop? or is this one for the scrap heap?
Re:You have to take it to an IBM reseller and they have to do it for you.
Re:You won't be able to boot from the floppy if the BIOS password is set on a Thinkpad. There are places that will remove it for about $100 if you can prove the machine is not stolen. But you have to take it apart…
Re:hmmm don't know if it will let him boot to floppy but i'll check..
Re:Try "killcmos"…it defeats your bios settings including the password. Just go back into the bios and reset what needs it and you shouldn't have a password issue:
Killcmos (http://www.utilitygeek.com/software/bios/killcmos.html)
Re:From IBM
http://www-1.ibm.com/servlet/support/manager?rt=0&rs=0&org=psg&doc=6E23CC54570C23748025 64E5004B6676
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