Bricked laptop b/c of a major bug in the W530 BIOS password!?

I have purchased a W530 (model 2441CTO). I had to add a short/low security but convenient password to protect the BIOS. It that was exactly ** (star-star, easy to remember and fast to type on a French keyboard as it sits next to the Enter key). The BIOS accepted it without any warning.
Now when I reboot, the BIOS asks for the password. But it WILL NO MORE take into account any special character, including the stars, it just totally ignores them. I read (too late) that a dirty way around was to skip the special characters in the password. But in my case it leaves the password empty, and an empty password means read-only mode in the BIOS. By the way, it also does not check if the stored admin password is empty *before* it checks if the entered password is empty (a second programming mistake imho).
I spent a lot of time trying to understand until I read about such an issue that dates back to 2009 !!!
http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/SL-Series-ThinkPad-Laptops/Undocumented-problem-with-BIOS-password/td-p/...
So my question is: what shall I do now?
Send it back for an exchange?
Would a BIOS upgrade (or downgrade+upgrade) bypass this one-way security?
I am really upset by my 1775 euro brick featuring a 4 year warranty that gets half-bricked in a week or so. I just cannot understand how such an ugly and MAJOR bug could go through unfixed till 2013. This is really a serious hit to lenovo reputation.
please do help!

Empty password means no password. The discussion you reference is for an older machine where there was an option to make the bios settings visible but not changeable when there was a pw. I am not going to get into a discussion of how passwords are stored, but I will say that the data stored is encrypted and the date depends on the scan code of the key, so that a password can be entered on one type of keyboard and cleared on a different one. The data stored for an empty password or no password is all zeros.

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Hi Prasad.. We do have a support issue open on this. I'll email you directly with the
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          > Vinny,
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          > Thanks
          > Prasad
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          > > Hi Prasad.. Unfortunately that is not going to be acceptable. Our deployment date
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          > > Prasad Peddada wrote:
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          > > > Vinny,
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          > > > Thanks
          > > > Prasad
          > > >
          > > > Vinny Carpenter wrote:
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          > > > > Hi Prasad.. We're a big Solaris/Sun shop and so it's going to be difficult to
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          > > > > --Vinny
          > > > >
          > > > > Prasad Peddada wrote:
          > > > >
          > > > > > Vinny,
          > > > > >
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          > > > > > would it be possible to try with NES on NT and see if you still have the
          > > > > > problem.
          > > > > >
          > > > > > Thanks
          > > > > > Prasad
          > > > > >
          > > > > > Vinny Carpenter wrote:
          > > > > >
          > > > > > > Hi there. We are having a major problem with our WebLogic cluster that
          > > > > > > cannot be explained, but is bad enough where we can't deploy our
          > > > > > > application and miss our schedule. Here's the setup:
          > > > > > >
          > > > > > > We have 8 WebLogic servers (4.5.1) running on 2 Sun 5500 servers with
          > > > > > > 2GB of RAM each running Solaris 2.6. The web server in front of the
          > > > > > > cluster is Netscape Enterprise Server version 3.6.2. We are using
          > > > > > > SunSoft's 1.1.7_07 (native threads) as our JDK to start the WebLogic
          > > > > > > servers. We are using in-memory replication on this cluster.
          > > > > > >
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          > > > > > > netscape server, things work fine for a while. It seems that everything
          > > > > > > works fine for the first 10 minutes. But then things start to slow
          > > > > > > down and response time grows exponentially until the browser start
          > > > > > > timing out and nothing works. When this happens, I can ping the servers
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          > > > > > >
          > > > > > > All of this had led me to believe the there is a serious bug in the
          > > > > > > wl-proxy (libproxy.so) for Solaris. The logs do not seem to indicate
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          > > > > > > of options. We have a WebLogic consultant on site, but he has not been
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          > > > > > >
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          > > > > > >
          > > > > > > --Vinny

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I understand, why Verizon rate-limits the outgoing e-mail sending and don't object to it in principle. However, the current implementation has a major flaw. When the threshold is exceeded, instead of blocking all subsequent messages with a permanent error (5xx in SMTP-speak), the server ought to issue a temporary failure (4xx in SMTP-speak).
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A friend of mine is an RCN-subscriber and we know, that RCN implements rate-limiting exactly this way: if you are sending "too much", your messages will start being temporarily rejected for a while.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Anthony, this is not a "disagreement" -- I'm pointing out a bug. The bug manifested itself with the following two problems:
Although none of the e-mails sent by my computer were spam, I was "identified" as a spammer and my access to SMTP was suspended for days. For no good reason.
Even if it were possible to appeal such automatic verdict (and I did try to talk to a customer support representative), permanent rejections in the case of a temporary error are wrong -- and in violation of SMTP specifications.
I did post the same text under the "New Ideas", but I don't think, "new idea" is the good place for this. I'm not suggesting a new service, but demanding a fix to the existing one.

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Hello there,
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At the moment the only solution I can see is to setup my iPhone as new but this will be a major hassle and lose all my settings etc.
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so to clarify, it appears that the multitasking snapshot for the following scenario will not update: open safari and turn to landscape, exit safari using home button or multitasking bar, then double press home button. That snapshot that appears for safari doesn't ever seem to refresh. Whatever is there is stuck there and whats more it will always pop up in the actual browser for 1-2 secs the next time safari is opened after completing those steps. Im not sure when the snapshot is initially created - it must be the first ever time you close safari but as I said in my post, it also appears to be stored in iCloud backups. So I've tried:
a) hard resetting
b) clearing safari cache and history
c) resetting all settings
d) restoring from iCloud (as mentioned)
e) opening and closing closing safari using the multitasking menu (both the landscape multitasking menu that appears when you're actually in safari in landscape mode, and the multitasking menu that appear when you double press the home button on the home screen).
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Between yesterday's iWeb and today's, whatever drives that icon to appear has changed. Yesterday, no icon and selectable text. Today, icon and no selection possible.
All the text on this page was selectable yesterday without any issue at all. Now it's a text image and cannot be selected. Further, this makes the page completely useless for iPad viewing.
I've tested everything on the page that I can think of to get rid of this little cautionary icon. I switched off all image bullets, all separator and image drop shadows. There ore no cross-out words. Nothing works.
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Ironical that it is a review of Final Cut Pro X.

Zapfino is not one of the Web Safe Fonts and so the conversion to an image.
OT

Major Bug in InDesign CC

Every time I select the type tool in InDesign CC on my macbook pro, it crashes. EVERY SINGLE time. Is anyone else having this problem?

I know it's annoying when things don't work, but "something not working on my computer" is not necessarily "a major bug". You'll find people reporting crashes with every version of every software application ever written, while others use them perfectly well.
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CAUTION-MAJOR BUG Address Book's "Merge Selected Cards" DELETES CONTENT!

I have just realized (after losing much data) that when using the Merge Selected Cards function within the Apple Address Book that it will, without notification, delete content! That's right, if the two cards share different data but have the same field labels, Address Book will merge the two and simply keep the content in the 1st record (deleting the content in the 2nd).
For example... Two records (same contact), one record with a home-email and home-number and one with a work-email and work-number. However since both happen to have default field labels of "email" and "number" when you select "Merge..." you don't end up with two emails/numbers in the merged contact you actually only have the content from the 1st record.
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This is a major error. The feature should be removed asap until it is corrected!!

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There are at least 3 separate RADAR bug reports about this issue.
There have been 3 Mac OS Snow Leopard updates since the bug was reported to them. The bug has not been fixed in any of these updates.
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We suggest you try and make as many people at Apple aware of this issue as we think it is very poor that they are aware of a serious data loss bug for 12 months and havent rectified it in many software and Address Book app updates.
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Equinox News Pictures Ltd.
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Yosemite Mail - Major bug when adding a Gmail account

On a Mac I open Mail for the first time.
It proposes me to add an email account.
I select Gmail and fill the three fields (Name, email, password).
When I click on Set Up, the second field (email) and the third field (password) are emptied and the cursor blinks in the second (email) field.
I repeat the steps and click on Set Up. Same problem.
This is a major bug. Impossible to add an email account in Mail.

This did not work for me. I am frustrated beyond belief right now. I did the 'other' route, added a Mail account.. put in my google apps for business email/app-specific password.. it said verifying.. everything was well & dandy. Yay its going to work!
And then it 'unchecks' mail after it sets itself up. It works, verifies, logs in, everything. It shows the password was used from the Google Security page.. at the exact time of setting it up..
And then it unchecks itself. I cannot 'check' mail on the account. It works for Contacts, Calendars, Messages.. but not Mail and Notes.
This is only on Yosemite. My other machine has Mavericks and it works as expected. Oy.

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