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Name: yellowfrogred
Date: May 12, 2008 at 14:18:17 Pacific
Subject: randomly appering startup password
OS: XP
CPU/Ram: not sure
Manufacturer/Model: IBM X 30 thinkpad
Comment:

i have an IBM X30 thinkpad, it has sudenly got itself a startup password as it also has a date time error code "0721". i have not had a startup password before and do not now how it has appered


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Response Number 1
Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: May 14, 2008 at 10:02:10 Pacific
Reply:

Do you mean a BIOS set user password? Or a Windows login password? Are you able to login to the computer?

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Response Number 2
Name: yellowfrogred
Date: May 19, 2008 at 11:19:41 Pacific
Reply:

its a bios password


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Response Number 3
Name: Jennifer SUMN
Date: May 20, 2008 at 08:53:14 Pacific
Reply:

Go into the BIOS and disable the password.

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Response Number 4
Name: yellowfrogred
Date: May 20, 2008 at 09:08:21 Pacific
Reply:

i cant password is before the bios, i have tried taking the bios adapter ofrf but that dose not help.


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