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March 6, 2005 at 7:26 am #2176608

Locked supervisor password: Thinkpad T40

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by grze11 · about 17 years, 2 months ago

My wife locked a T40 with a bios supervisor password and forgot it. Anyone has na idea how to clear it?

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- March 6, 2005 at 12:37 pm #3328881
  
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  by softcorp.us · about 17 years, 2 months ago
  
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  Hello…
  
  Bad news on this one. By design, there is no way for a user to reset the BIOS Supervisor password (of course, anything can be hacked, but I don’t know of any such hack for the ThinkPad T40). Only IBM can do this. You must return the machine to them and pay a fee. You also need to provide proof of ownership so they don’t become party to laptop theft.
  
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- March 7, 2005 at 12:51 am #3328789
  
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  by oz_media · about 17 years, 2 months ago
  
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  Hate to see you got the same reply here but that’s what I had assumed. There are quite a few defaults for the IBM bios, as provided in the links I sent you but as I said, these have become few and far between since IBM started using EPROM security.
  
  🙁
- March 8, 2005 at 1:11 am #3331907
  
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  by carlos.nino · about 17 years, 2 months ago
  
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  There might be a chance. Try following the instructions from this site: http://www.ja.axxs.net/unlock/t40.htm
  
  Good luck!!!
- March 21, 2006 at 6:53 am #3076269
  
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  by hometreasures · about 16 years, 2 months ago
  
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  any body can help me with my ibm t40 i lost the bios password please help me
  - July 5, 2008 at 3:59 am #2924054
    
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    by alidabiri1 · about 13 years, 10 months ago
    
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      by bizzo · about 13 years, 9 months ago
      
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