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As they said, if its the supervisor or Hard drive password you're screwed. If its the regular password, then you can override it by putting a little jumper over a pin in the cdrom drive bay of the machine. For the exact location look in the Hardware maintenance manual of the thinkpad. To see that, do a search on www.infoseek.com (not yahoo or altavista) for s82g1503. That should bring up the right document from ibms documentation server. Then just look up for your model on how to reset the password. If you need a jumper there might be one on the cdrom drive that you can take off and use for this purpose. On my 755cd it has a jumper like that. On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Bill Berry wrote: > So, I'm doing some basic maintenance prior to compressing my HD. I run > Norton, > etc. Then I think back to my Mac days and I say, I wonder if there's > something > akin to resetting the P-RAM for Intel machines. I look in the utilities > section on Windows95.com and I find the utility killCMOS. > > I read through the readme and come across the section: > > *scenerio two* > Sometimes, a motherboard's CMOS settings will get corrupted due to a > power-flux or just because it felt like it. The Level of corruption may > keep you from even into the CMOS menu. > > So I figure, cool this clean out any corruption and I can get on with the > rest > of my day. > > I go into the set up and remove my passwords (just in case) and run killCMOS. > > Reboot. Bang! I gotta password. (But didn't I just remove my passwords?!) > Maybe it reset my old one? No. > > Anyway, I can't use my ThinkPad. I call IBM, they tell me I have to have the > power-on password reset by an authorized IBM service center. But, if it's the > hard drive password or the "supervisor" password, I'll have to replace the > components (hard drive & system board). This turns out to be just about what > the thing (TP365XD DS) is going for right now in the stores, since the new > model came out. > > So basically though I can use my ThinkPad, I can't get into the setup if I > need to, or format the hard drive. > > Any ideas on what I can do, or what killCMOS would have set as the passwords? > > I can send you the text of the readme if it'll help. > > Yes, I've sent e-mail to the author of killCMOS. > > Please help. E-mail: doggo@megsinet.net > > >