Locked bios

Last night tried to fix Friends antique I Series. First swapped out the failed hard drive booted it and got error that battery was bad or dead. I thought it meant the little 3 V batt. Booted again and now it stop's at the IBM Thinkpad screen with F1 for bios AND something I have never seen. In the top left corner is a little computer looking symbol and a pad lock symbol.
I tried F1 & F12 every way I know. Tried esc but get a X beside the lock. I tried All 0's but get a X Tried 0123456 and almost every other cluster of numbers to un lock but after a couple try's I get a stop sign with a hand in it and a line threw it.
I don't know how the password got turned on or what it may be. I figure it must be a factory preset password. Can anyone help me get this poor old thing up and surfing again.

Welcome to the forum! 
As far as I know, there's no factory pre-set password, and forum rules prohibit password-bypass discussions.
Locking thread.
Message Edited by nonny on 09-28-2008 01:33 PM
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