IBM T-42 - bios password

[ValuedCustomer]

I've got a laptop I need to rebuild that was issued to a recently terminated employee who somehow and for some idiotic reason put a password on the bios. - question: is there any way to hack the bios and remove the password protection? at this point IBM is gonna want $750 to "fix" it and I'd rather not blow my budget on garbage like that.

anyone?

 

[WackyDan]

IBM will not fix it... They will replace the planar.

There is absolutely no way around the bios supervisor password.. Same thing for the Hard Drive Password if set. The only thing you can reset on a ThinkPad, is the Power on Password.

For future reference, you can set multi levels of bios supervisor passwords, and you should set one globally to keep your users out of the bios to begin with. the end fault here is with the IT dept.... I'm not picking on you, but this happens all the time.

Your only cheap option is to have your HR or Legal dept contact him for the password. They can threaten to hold back his last check, or expense check until he complies or threaten legal action. That generally will get you the password.

 

[silverpig]

Um, can't you just remove all power from the device like in a PC? Pull the battery, and any little batteries on the board?

 

[Brainonska511]

Originally posted by: silverpig
Um, can't you just remove all power from the device like in a PC? Pull the battery, and any little batteries on the board?

It's probably stored in nonvolatile memory.

 

[slugg]

to my understanding, all business grade laptops store it in nonvolatile memory... as said by Brainoska511. Could be wrong tho. But I'm pretty sure SECURITY is one of the things that makes it "business grade" lol

 

[ValuedCustomer]

damn. not the answer I wanted but an answer all the same. - thanks for the responses, all

 

[WackyDan]

Originally posted by: silverpig
Um, can't you just remove all power from the device like in a PC? Pull the battery, and any little batteries on the board?

Nope... Not on a laptop.