I have an IBM Thinkpad 570 which actually runs fine. The only problem is that there is a bios password preventing me from making any changes. I've visited a few sites and downloaded !BIOS, cmospwd-4.3 and killcmos. I was able to recover the passwords i needed, but for some reason i was unable to edit the bios to disable it from prompting me the next time i wanted to get in. The bios version is IMET60WW (that's a zero). If anyone has any suggestions i'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks. kl365 When was the last time you saw BSOD under *nix?

Found a solution. In order to perform a successful BIOS recovery, you should have a backup of a bios handy on a floppy. This can easily be done using !BIOS available from http://www.11a.nu . It is ideal to have a copy of the BIOS from another machine (same model) so that you don't have to play with the CMOS settings. Also, you can attempt to recover the passwords using !BIOS, but you may run into some errors when trying to reset the default settings after recovery.In either case, back up, back up, back up. 1. boot up into DOS using floppy 2. Change to the disk with Rempass v 3.00 available at http://natan.zejn.si/rempass.html and attempt to recover the password. 3. If password is unavailable, press the 'p' key to delete the existing bios. 4. now at this point, the BIOS will be screwy and if you reboot you may get errors telling you to check your system clock. Play around with it until you can reboot back into DOS (Just setting the clock worked for me.) 5. You now have the option of trying to restore the BIOS using Rempass which automatically created a backup before the kill. You can also load up !BIOS again and restore with that. I found that with Rempass, when i did the backup it was still prompting me for the password after a reboot, but the password had been reset to nothing so I just had to hit enter to get in. When i did a restore using !BIOS and rebooted i got into the BIOS no problem. This worked only because i had more than one thinkpad lying around with pretty much the same hardware. If anyone knows a workaround for this let me know. thanks. kl365 Information Security Specialist "I am become death, the destroyer of worlds." - Oppenheimer

Someone correct me if I am wrong, but I think that once you set a password you are stuck with it. You might be able to change it, but not eliminate it. Anyway, that's what happened to me a long time ago. Since then I have never set a bios password.

HOLD THE PHONE< WAIT WAIT WAIT HHHHOOOLlllllledd IT !!!! ! ! ! ! !! Before you go arunnin around ain acircles, have you tried , like, maybe, RTFM? (R ead T he F . . .....actory M anual) That is, if you don't have it, you can go to IBM support and download BOTH the hardware manual and the users manual I KNOW that there was a post about this some time ago, and I'm SURE the hardware manual tells you how. Now, not only THAT, but there are about 3 three THREE THUUUREEE or so passwords in IBM THINKPADS. The bios password--easy to get rid of Supervisor password--more reading Hard Drive Password--if you don't have or know this, just throw the hard drive away and get a different one, because you are NOT gonna get around it. Here be the hardware maintenance: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-4793QA Start at about page 22 "Reset switch" which talks about not only that but the password(s) function. scroll down to page 23 and they tell you how to remove the power on (bios) password.