Jstras
January 10th, 2002, 10:05 AM
This is my first posting on the board.
I have a customer that brought me a thinkpad model a21m. The machine has a security lock on it and will not allow any access: not from floppy, CD or hard disk, not even a BIOS setup. He claimed a terminated employee had it and "forgot" the password. The machine does its power up checks and then drops into security mode. In the upper left corner of the screen appears the number 1, under the number is a flowchart symbol for a hard drive, to the right of these is a padlock in the locked position and to the right of that is a flashing cursor with an entry line for a seven digit password. The salesman that I talked to told me it was impossible to crack. If this is level 2 security only a hard drive change can beat it, if this is level 3 security then a system board change is needed. Either of these is too expensive. Does anyone know how to get into this machine? I don't mind sending it to IBM even, as long as it is not too much money.
Thanks,
I have a customer that brought me a thinkpad model a21m. The machine has a security lock on it and will not allow any access: not from floppy, CD or hard disk, not even a BIOS setup. He claimed a terminated employee had it and "forgot" the password. The machine does its power up checks and then drops into security mode. In the upper left corner of the screen appears the number 1, under the number is a flowchart symbol for a hard drive, to the right of these is a padlock in the locked position and to the right of that is a flashing cursor with an entry line for a seven digit password. The salesman that I talked to told me it was impossible to crack. If this is level 2 security only a hard drive change can beat it, if this is level 3 security then a system board change is needed. Either of these is too expensive. Does anyone know how to get into this machine? I don't mind sending it to IBM even, as long as it is not too much money.
Thanks,