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Written by Administrator
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Sunday, 09 September 2007 |
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First, I would like to thank all of the people out there trying to work very hard on recover their IBM ThinkPad passwords. I also understand that there are some out there that have stolen ThinkPad’s 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 for these websites but 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. (1.) Ah yes the 600e. Isn't it lovely?
| (2.) Remove the battery, hard drive, memory and CD-Rom and undo all screws with arrows pointing to them | (3.) Lift off the keyboard from the front, at the back there are two flat plastic cables to remove before lifting the keyboard fully
| (4.) The insides should look like this
| (5.) The first thing to try and remove is the modem situated 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.
| (6.) The heat sink is also attached by a cable that powers the fan. It looks quite cool.
| (7.) You can now remove the CPU card but first remove the piece of metal holding it down sticking out from the PC card block
| (8.) This is the CPU card and the connector here is fantastic. There must be some 450 pins
| (9.) This is the board end. When putting it back together remember the position of the black wire bundle
| (10.) Note the way the LCD is connected by winding the ribbon cable round and round
| (11.) At that’s, the thing is stripped. There is little point going any further
| (12.) The board.
| (13.) The chip in red is the EEPROM chip you need to unsolder to get at your password!
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 09 September 2007 )
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