Hello, I tried doing a search for "password ThinkPad" on eBay and came back with many results for replacement EEPROM chips such as the Atmel 24RF08 or 24C01. These are surface-mounted chips so replacing them requires a proper electronics reworking area (desoldering station, some kind of way to simulate reflow soldering and so forth).
Unless you or the electronics repair technician who is doing the work is comfortable doing this type of board-level component repair, I would suggest either using a service where you ship them the motherboard or ThinkPad, or consider buying a replacement replacement motherboard that has been tested as good. I would think that working 600X motherboards would be fairly inexpensive these days; the i1171 I am not so sure about. One thing to keep in mind is that specific discussion of password cracking is not allowed on the list, see question #15 in the FAQ, or refer to <http://zurich.ai.mit.edu/hypermail/thinkpad/2002-02/1095.html> or <http://zurich.ai.mit.edu/hypermail/thinkpad/2002-02/1132.html> for some examples (these refer to the hard disk drive password, but the issue is the same). Regards, Aryeh Goretsky At 10:00 AM 1/22/2009, you wrote: >Message: 4 >Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:25:53 +0100 >From: [email protected] >Subject: [Thinkpad] (no subject) >To: "TP IBM LIST" <[email protected]> >Message-ID: <[email protected]> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > >Look at: > >http://cgi.ebay.de/Toshiba-BIOS-Passwort-Killer-Password-Entferner-Dongle_W0QQitemZ130283026900QQcmdZViewItemQQptZNotebook_Komponenten?hash=item130283026900&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1229%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318 > >My question is: > >Are there any "pw dongles" available for our beloved old IBMs? > >600x and i1171 both have these "secret" and "almost-not-documented" connectors >on the bottom and I already wrote about the CMOS-battery-outage pain that I am >facing with 3 IBMs here, so: > >any constructive reaction appreciated! > >Best regards! >-- >NUR NOCH BIS 31.01.! GMX FreeDSL - Telefonanschluss + DSL >f?r nur 16,37 EURO/mtl.!* http://dsl.gmx.de/?ac=OM.AD.PD003K11308T4569a _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
