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Re: ThinkPad 701C forgetting my password?



If you were using an external external numeric keypad and plug it 
off during suspend, the TP seems to be unable to translate the pressed 
keys in the right way ...

Got this "error" with a TP 755cx.

Regards

 ./Michael

Hui-Hsien Chou wrote:
> 
> Hi, is it possible that my ThinkPad can forget my own password? I set
> my password the first week I had my ThinkPad and never changed it in
> the following nine months. After I was not using it for over a week, I
> can't get pass the resume password and power on password any more
> (they are set as the same). I NEVER changed my password. So why?
> 
> I was running Linux 1.2.13 before I close the ThinkPad cover. The
> ThinkPad was hooked to external power. Is it possible that some system
> error can inadvertently modify the CMOS memory address where password
> is stored?  Please let me know if you have had the same spontaneous
> password invalidating experience. I am going to ask EASYSERV for
> service and I need to convince them that I didn't forget my password;
> this thing just refuses to accept my good old password anymore.
> 
> By the way, does anyone got IBM EASYSERV phone number handy?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> hh

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