T60 BIOS Password

I lost my BIOS password, anyway to retreive it without buying and installing a new motherboard?

jetputt, welcome to the forum,
you will need to remember your password. Try contacting support, it may be that they can offer assistance. I'm sorry; this subject is not allowed to be discussed here as stated in the forum rules - Thread locked
No posts shall include instructions or directions intended to subvert security measures, including passwords, locking mechanisms, fingerprint scans, etc, nor shall any posts provide descriptions to the location of, nor direct links to content related to these topics.
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T60 bios security issues

Hello everyone,
I understand password bypass is a forbidden topic on this board, so I will try to frame my question appropriately. My college-age daughter has a 3 year old T60 which i bought for her at the beginning of her college career. At that time, I set up her POP & bios passwords & registered our fingerprints without fully understanding what I was doing. She loves the notebook so much that she declined my offer to replace it with a newer unit. So, we instead added memory & swapped out the hdd. So far, so good. I then got an external usb enclosure for the old hdd, so she can use it as a backup device. That's when it became clear I didn't know what I was doing when I was initially setting up the system 3 years ago. The drive is locked & I could not unlock it for the life of me; i.e., we both forgot the bios, pop & hdd passwords. Her fingerprint will still get her into the bios, but nothing can be changed without the original pwd, it seems. The system is use-able, i.e., she can log into xp & do her thing. I just want to know if there is any way to reset the old hdd once you've gained access to the bios. I am not about to sink $50 for a one time unlock service from a russian hdd repair experts for a 60gb hdd. So, is the drive now toast? Or, does anyone know of a workaround? Is there a way to take fingerprint authentication & use that to do low level configs?
Thanks for your help.
Jean

For POP password, follow the given tip:-
Forgotten Power-on password
If the Power-on password is forgotten and the Supervisor password is known, simply go into the ThinkPad BIOS setup utility and reset the Power-on password, otherwise try the following:
Turn off the computer.
Remove the battery pack.
Remove the backup battery.
Turn on the computer and wait until the POST ends. After the POST ends, the password prompt does not appear. The POP has been removed.
Reinstall the backup battery and the battery pack.
Note: Some ThinkPad systems have the ability to reset the Power-on passwords in the ThinkPad BIOS setup utility if a Supervisor password has been set.
Backup battery is the yellow colored CMOS battery inside the notebook, watch the proceeding video on how to remove and install it:-
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-63894
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-63895
As for HDD's user password, follow the proceeding instructions:-
To remove a user HDP that has been forgotten, when the SVP and the master HDP are known, do the following:
1. Turn on the computer; then, while the “To interrupt normal startup, press the blue ThinkVantage button” message is displayed at the lower-left of the screen, press the ThinkVantage button. The Rescue and Recovery screen opens.
For models supporting the Passphrase function, press F1 while HDP icon is appearing on the screen; then enter the master HDP. For the other models, enter the master HDP.
Note: To check whether the ThinkPad computer supports the Passphrase function, enter the BIOS Setup Utility and go to Security --> Password. If Using Passphrase item is displayed in the menu, this function is available on the ThinkPad computer.
2. Click Access BIOS. The system Restart Required window is displayed.
3. Click Yes. The computer restarts, and the BIOS Setup Utility screen opens.
4. Select Security, using the cursor directional keys to move down the menu.
5. Select Password.
6. Select Hard-disk x password, where x is the letter of the hard disk drive. A pop-up window opens.
7. Select Master HDP. 8. Type the current master HDP in the Enter Current Password field. then leave
the Enter New Password field blank, and press Enter twice. 9. Press F10.
10. Select Yes in the Setup Configuration window. Both user HDP and master HDP will have been removed.
If you set no Master HDP, then I suggest leaving the fields blank both times.
Hope it helps.
Maliha (I don't work for lenovo)
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Can't enter T60 BIOS

My problem is two-pronged:
I put an image our company uses on a T60 Model#: 8744-5BU which blew away all the Lenovo software. I then put our standard BIOS password on but when I try to get into the BIOS now, there is no prompt to enter a password so I can't get in. When I put in the password I was unaware that there's a user and administrator password. I'm not sure which one I set. What needs to installed so I will be prompted for a password?
Also, I want to get into the BIOS so I can check the Track Point settings as the Track Point and Mouse Pad intermittenly work. Sometimes just the Pad works other times nothing works. I've installed the UltraNav Wizard for Track Point but doesn't seem to have had any affect.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

dwhittak, welcome to the forum,
Please contact support, (English / French 1-800-565-3344,in Toronto only call 416-383-3344) or contact your company's sales rep. regarding your BIOS password issue. The forum rules forbid discussion of this subject and therefore I will lock this thread.
By all means please open a new thread regarding the UltraNav problems you are experiencing.
Thanks for understanding
Message Edited by andyP on 12-02-2008 10:35 PM
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Administrator Bios Password won't work on HP 4420s XT940UT#ABA Windows 7 64 Bit

Someone please help me with this!!
I bought this laptop from a friend (have a receipt) who sold it to me because the screen was cracked and all spidered out when you turned it on. Well everywhere he went to ask about getting the screen fixed it was very expensive ($250 - $350) and he said he would just get a newer laptop. So he sold me this one which is a HP4420s XT940UT#ABA Probook Model. About a week after I bought this Probook the friend who sold it to me died suddenly. This was sudden and terrible. Some time later I got around to buying the LCD screen for this model, replaced it myself (was very easy actually) and booted up the laptop with a fresh install of Windows 7 Pro edition 64 Bit. After installing all my software and using the laptop for quite some time now, I wanted to get into the Bios which I had never done. So when I started up the laptop, hit escape, then F10 to enter BIOS, there were two places to enter a password which is different then any Dell I've ever owned. One was mine I guees that I set up using HP protect tools and the other says BIOS/Administrator. Well I can make most changes using the one I set up with my password however my password doesn't work nor can I get into some of the very important changes I wanted to make using the Bios/Administrator, like turning on the LoJack, figuring out the hard disk lock etc, turning on turbo boost, fan controls, etc. Well Since the person I bought it from is no longer with us, there is no one to turn to for the answer to this Administrator/BIOS password question / problem. I tried taking out the Rtype battery and resetting it that way, didn't work. I called HP multiple times and they sent me to a BIOS page to download the same BIOS I have already, wouldn't let me install it. When I bring up the command prompt and put in BiosConfigureUtility.exe nothing happens, just tells me wrong command. When I try to get into the BIOS going through the C: file into the SSM files, I reach the BiosConfigUtility.exe file, click on it to open and it just flashes a small command page way to fast to read what it says. I would like to have complete control over my laptop figuring I have so much time and money invested into it now. Could the problem have something to do with installing the 64 bit version of Windows 7 instead of the 32 bit I guess it originally came with? I have all the manuals and they say that this laptop is Windows 7 Pro Ultimate 64 bit compatible so that's what I installed. I get mixed answers from a lot of different people on this and would like a answer from an HP person who has experience dealing with the BIOS in the Business models of Probooks if possible please. I really like this Probook and have since became a major fan of HP over Dell and Lenovo products. I plan to buy two more probooks, one for my wife and one for my daughter because this one is like a MacBook, only better. Thank you for reading this and hopefully someone can help.
Model: HP Probook 4420s
Type: XT940UT#ABA
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate
BIOS Version: 68AHHH Ver.F.20
SM BIOS Version: 2.6
Hardware Extraction Layer: Version 6.1.7601.17514
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once you log a support case with HP customer care, they will provide you once utility and steps to run it. which can capture the UUID. BTW- UUID is a unique ID for each machine (16 or more digits) stored in BIOS itself.
Once the utility results(UUID and other info) in the log file, shared with HP. they can generate a key file(SMC) to reset.
well, Technical support depertment can help you in it, no need to ask for any specific person or department.
hope it helps.
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I'm hoping for a code like I've seen other users with the same issue get. We've forgotten the BIOS password set on a HP Folio 13-2000 laptop and repeated attempts now give the message System Disabled 68875769.
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hi..i have a problem...
i have a laptop Toshiba SATELLITE A100-528 PSAA2E-01H00WGE....
the problem is that i downloaded toshiba HW setup and i accidentaly set a password..
.not a user password....it's propably supervisor password or bios password...
.the thing is that i don't know what the password is...i boot up my pc and it don't let me get in windows if i don't type the password.....is there any way to remove the password ??
it does not let me either boot from a cd or usb....i press F12 in order to choose to boot from cd or usb but it's still asks for the unknown password....is there any solution ??
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>the problem is that i downloaded toshiba HW setup and i accidentaly set a password..
>.not a user password....it's propably supervisor password or bios password...
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Yesterday I made a BIOS update of my Toshiba Satellite A100-376 (PSAAR) to version 5.90-WIN. Everything went ok but now when I'am trying to enter BIOS Setup by pressing F2 in start, the BIOS ask me for a password but I don't know what it is because I don't have any. What's the problem? Is anything wrong? Please help me.
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Hi there,
you are sure you didnt set a BIOS password or some of your friends/relatives? Because this is impossible that a BIOS update is setting a password. My friend has a Satellite A100-778, so he did the same update you did and he has no problems.
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