How to enter a BIOS/UEFI password in T420?

Hello, I don't need to remove the UEFI supervisor password, I know what it is. The problem is that I can't get it to prompt me for that password! Pressing Thinkvantage button + F1 just prompts for the power-on password, and I'm never asked to enter the supervisor password so that I can enable the VT & VT-d settings. This is really critical, I can't run VirtualBox without it.
Can anyone explain how to enter it? Am I getting to the BIOS settings the wrong way?
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Power off, start it up, enter Supervisor password at Power On password prompt.
Hope this helps!
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