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aeva

I thought I'd boot up my old R60 and see if it still works. I set a BIOS password for it that I do not remember, and therefore can't get it to boot from a CD. After a few tries it's now saying it's been tampered with. Thanks past me.

Anyways I guess this is garbage now unless anyone knows if there's some way to bypass this sort of thing :(

The boot screen for my old Lenovo Thinkpad R60
An error message claims the computer has been tampered with
A bios password prompt screen. There is an icon of a lock with a little box icon next to it
26 Mar 2023 at 4:32 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place
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SnoopJ

@aeva ThinkWiki appears to have a note about this that makes it seem like it's a "open it up and reprogram the chip" scenario

thinkwiki.org/wiki/Maintenance

Although I also saw references on there to the RTC battery being possibly tied to the message, so maybe poke around on there/their forums some more to get a second opinion

26 Mar 2023 at 4:37 | Open on hachyderm.io
bri

@aeva oh god this is so relatable 😭 past me needs all of present me’s preservation instincts, but none of present me’s security instincts.

26 Mar 2023 at 4:43 | Open on digipres.club
aeva

there should be something like a séance but for recovering long forgotten passwords

26 Mar 2023 at 5:05 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place
Allan Chow

@aeva otp but with a drop of blood.

26 Mar 2023 at 5:08 | Open on fosstodon.org
P_Malin

@aeva wait, why am I searching for "ouija board usb keyboards"?
Oh yeah, it was this post.

26 Mar 2023 at 13:12 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place
Michael Gurski

@aeva there's gotta be some jumper setting or something to reset that...

26 Mar 2023 at 10:00 | Open on strangeplace.me
LillyLyle/Count Melancholia
Ian Ridgwell

@aeva distantly and remove BIOS battery leave for some minutes. Try again.

27 Mar 2023 at 4:31 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place
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