On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 15:48 -0500, David Mandelberg wrote: > Michelle Konzack wrote: > > I have lost the Password and a new SystemBoard for 460 Euro is too > > expensive. So I like to sell the Laptop in pieces. > Have you checked if the bios has a constant password? A lot of bios > manufacturers make them with passwords that will work no matter what you set the > password to. Search google for the bios type and "lost password" or something > similar to find the password if there is one. I'm sure IBM (or an authorized distributor) can unlock the bios password. Even in the case of Sony this works (and they are not known for enthusiastic customer support). maybe you find something here: http://forum.webhostlist.de/show/showthread.php?t=40538 (german) or here: http://www.computing.net/windows95/wwwboard/forum/162657.html found by google (unlock bios ibm). Good luck, Hp. -- Hanspeter Kunz Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Ph.D. Student Department of Information Technology Email: hkunz@ailab.ch University of Zurich Tel: +41.(0)44.63-54306 Andreasstrasse 15, Office 2.12 http://ailab.ch/people/hkunz CH-8050 Zurich, Switzerland Spamtraps: hkunz.bogus@ailab.ch hkunz.bogus@ifi.unizh.ch --- Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. -- Publilius Syrus
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