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Please Do Not in Install the Japanese Language. Here is a very interesting site I found but the only problem is that it is in Japanese. I have translated the web page so it can be read in English.

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Please Do Not install the Japanese Language. Here also goes another site which I found too but this was in Japanese too, so I have translated the web page so it can be read in English.

First, I would like to thank all the people out there that are working very hard trying to recover their IBM ThinkPad passwords. I also understand that there are some people that have stolen ThinkPads but this site is not to help them out. It is here for people that have really lost their passwords. Here are some links to other people who are trying to recover their passwords and some methods that they have tried. I am not trying to steal the information, I am sharing it with you! This is what I have found on the internet while surfing trying to recover my own password from my IBM ThinkPad. Please use this information at your own risk !!!!!

Here is a student from The University of Manchester who has taken an IBM ThinkPad 600e apart to recover the BIOS password.

These are some of the steps he took to take the IBM ThinkPad 600e apart and just looked inside. This information is coming from his web site.

IIBM ThinkPad 600e Publication

OVERVIEW
New IBM ThinkPad 600E Models -- Improved Power and Performance in a Light, Thin Form Factor

The thin, light design, ease-of-use, and reliability of the first ThinkPad 600 systems is maintained in new models of the ThinkPad 600E.

With its slim 36.5-mm (1.4-in) profile(7) and travel configurations weighing less than 2.26 kg (5 lb)(1), the stylish ThinkPad 600E is a truly perfect travel partner -- maximum power, minimum weight, ingeniously designed for the way you work.

LATEST INTEL TECHNOLOGY:
Models feature the latest Mobile Pentium(R) II processor at 300PE(*)MHz(2) or 366 MHz, both with Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP), plus:

256 KB internal cache

Large 4.0 or 6.4 GB (3) HDD, depending on model

32 or 64 MB(4) SDRAM, depending on model

Programmable advanced communications processor with a V.90 internal modem with 56 Kbps(5) technology

DVD or CD-ROM drive, depending on model

Video out port (TV out) on selected models

Note (*) PE means Performance Enhanced

BRILLIANT, BRIGHT DISPLAY: 337.8-mm (13.3 in) (measured diagonally) TFT with 1024 x 768 resolution

Ah yes the 600e. Isn't it lovely?	Remove the battery, harddrive, memory and CD-Rom and undo all screws with arrows pointing to them	Lift off the keyboard from the front, at the back there are two flat plastic cables to remove before lifting the keyboard fully

The insides should look like this	The first thing to try and remove is the modem situaited on top if the hard disks. Then the heat sink can be removed by unscrewing it. You will need to unscrew the left screws on the CPU card the heat sink attaches to.	The heat sink is also attached by a cable powering the fan. It looks quite cool.
You can now remove the CPU card but first remove the piece of metal holding it down sticking out from the PC card block.	This is the CPU card. And the connector here is fantastic. That must be some 450 pins.	This is the board end. When putting it back together remember the position of the black wire bundle.
Note the way the LCD is connected by winding the ribbon cable round and round.	At thats, the thing is stripped. There is little point going any further.	The board.
	The chip in red is the eeprom chip you need to unsolder to get at your password !!!