On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 15:25, you wrote: > On Friday 06 October 2006 15:00, Andrew Errington wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Anyone tried resetting the password on a ThinkPad 600E? > > Lots of info at: > http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=555334
Thanks Chris, I have actually found a lot of relevant information, but I was wondering if anyone here had actually done it. For example, I have just opened the case and removed the CPU (because you have to do that to remove the mainboard to access the EEPROM). However, the information I read about that was incorrect, or incorrect for my board. When I removed the CPU the EEPROM was visible on the top side of the board, so I don't need to access the underside. Now I have soldered three wires to the EEPROM and I am about to hook it up to a serial port and use some funky software to extract the data (Windows only, it seems). Again, someone could have told me to be careful that the traces on the PCB don't come off when they get hot... Anyway, it's back together and boots, so I can move on to extracting the data. If nothing else, this will serve as a warning to future readers, oh, and a learning experience for me, as I have another 600E that I intend to use as a live photo frame- so I need to know how to pull one apart so I can re-assemble it inside the nice wooden frame I have. A
