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My laptop is locked with password in BIOS SETUP

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Post September 13th, 2006, 12:37 pm

My sister set a password on my laptop (Pentium II IBM ThinkPad 570) but she don't remember the password, she is not good in computer. i tried to take out the backup battery for two days but it still locked i tried even to remove the backup BIOS battery for 6 hours but still it ask for the password. When i start it end up in black screen it shows small computer screen together with a lock and cursor brinks. Any body knows how can i resolve this please help me.
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Post September 13th, 2006, 12:37 pm

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Post September 13th, 2006, 12:49 pm

You need to take out the battery, take out the bios battery, and then short the contacts of the bios battery holder to ground. If you don't, the capacitors on the board will still hold voltage and the bios won't be cleared. (This is the same thing the BIOS reset jumper does on desktop systems.)
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Post September 17th, 2006, 7:51 am

Mr. lucassix,
i did it but still the asking for the password
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Post September 18th, 2006, 6:25 pm

exactly how did you short the bios battery to ground..?
because if anywhere, i think this would be where you'd run into problems..
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Post September 19th, 2006, 5:36 am

Hi.
Usually there´s a backdoor password
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Some BIOS manufacturers implement a backdoor password. The backdoor password is a BIOS password that works, no matter what the user sets the BIOS password to. These passwords are typically used for testing and maintenance. Manufacturers typically change the backdoor BIOS passwords from time to time.
AMI Backdoor BIOS Passwords

Reported AMI backdoor BIOS passwords include A.M.I., AAAMMMIII, AMI?SW , AMI_SW, BIOS, CONDO, HEWITT RAND, LKWPETER, MI, and PASSWORD.
Award Backdoor BIOS Passwords

One reported Award backdoor BIOS password is eight spaces. Other reported Award backdoor BIOS passwords include 01322222, 589589, 589721, 595595, 598598 , ALFAROME, ALLY, ALLy, aLLY, aLLy, aPAf, award, AWARD PW, AWARD SW, AWARD?SW, AWARD_PW, AWARD_SW, AWKWARD, awkward, BIOSTAR, CONCAT, CONDO, Condo, condo, d8on, djonet, HLT, J256, J262, j262, j322, j332, J64, KDD, LKWPETER, Lkwpeter, PINT, pint, SER, SKY_FOX, SYXZ, syxz, TTPTHA, ZAAAADA, ZAAADA, ZBAAACA, and ZJAAADC.
Phoenix Backdoor BIOS Passwords

Reported Phoenix BIOS backdoor passwords include BIOS, CMOS, phoenix, and PHOENIX.
Backdoor BIOS Passwords from Other Manufacturers

Reported BIOS backdoor passwords for other manufacturers include:

Manufacturer - BIOS Password:
VOBIS & IBM - merlin
Dell - Dell
Biostar - Biostar
Compaq - Compaq
Enox - xo11nE
Epox - central
Freetech - Posterie
IWill - iwill
Jetway - spooml
Packard Bell - bell9
QDI - QDI
Siemens - SKY_FOX
SOYO - SY_MB
TMC - BIGO
Toshiba - Toshiba

Remember that what you see listed may not be the actual backdoor BIOS password, this BIOS password may simply have the same checksum as the real backdoor BIOS password. For Award BIOS, this checksum is stored at F000:EC60.


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Post September 19th, 2006, 5:42 am

I have never ever had a backdoor BIOS password actually work, but it's worth a shot.
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Post September 19th, 2006, 5:59 am

Well...i´ve been searching for that laptop solutions.And it´s not good!
As it seems that those laptops have a password storage separated from the cmos (i thought it was strange that clearing it didn´t work).A solution that i´ve seen is short circuiting them:
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ThinkPad 570 [2644]
1. Power off the computer.
2. Remove the DIMM cover on the bottom side of the computer.
3. Short-circuit the two password pads.
4. Under the short-circuit condition, power on the computer and wait until the POST ends.
After the POST ends, the password prompt does not appear. The power-on password is removed.
5. Reinstall the DIMM cover.


Someone with the same prob:
http://www.mail-archive.com/a-1-compute ... 07605.html

As you see you have a big prob.
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Post September 20th, 2006, 2:46 am

xamix wrote:
Well...i´ve been searching for that laptop solutions.And it´s not good


I found this solution after searching it and, did it more than 10 times but the password still there so am going to use backdoor password and i will let u know if succeeded or not.
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Post September 20th, 2006, 2:47 am

xamix wrote:
Well...i´ve been searching for that laptop solutions.And it´s not good!
As it seems that those laptops have a password storage separated from the cmos (i thought it was strange that clearing it didn´t work).A solution that i´ve seen is short circuiting them:
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ThinkPad 570 [2644]
1. Power off the computer.
2. Remove the DIMM cover on the bottom side of the computer.
3. Short-circuit the two password pads.
4. Under the short-circuit condition, power on the computer and wait until the POST ends.
After the POST ends, the password prompt does not appear. The power-on password is removed.
5. Reinstall the DIMM cover.


Someone with the same prob:
http://www.mail-archive.com/a-1-compute ... 07605.html

As you see you have a big prob.
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Post September 20th, 2006, 2:18 pm

hmmm...
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Post October 2nd, 2006, 3:33 am

Dear all,
my friend come with bios password clacker software on diskette so we have succided to unlock it.

I would like to thank you all viewers and all who are used their time to contribute what they have on their mind to solve my problem.
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Post March 4th, 2008, 11:57 pm

i have the same problem but i wanted to know how u got through with
Short-circuit the two password pads. how do you do that
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Post March 5th, 2008, 4:46 pm

Naslicer:

Membe wrote:
my friend come with bios password clacker software on diskette so we have succided to unlock it.


He did not do the short circuiting, he used a password cracking software that was taken from a diskette.
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Post March 5th, 2008, 11:55 pm

sure wuh were can i get that cracker aim not sure if i can get it over the Internet can you do me a favor and talk to him or give me the contacts
pleas i will like that

Post March 6th, 2008, 12:27 am

did you try searching google? ...cuz i'm assuming no...
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