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Whatever you do, do not use the utility called KillCMOS on a ThinkPad. I stupidly used it thinking that I'd be clearing the Intel equivalent of Parameter Ram on a Mac. D'oh! The thing corrupted my Supervisor and Hard drive password instead of clearing them. I neglected to disable them thinking the utility would wipe 'em out. What really bugs me though is: 1. IBM's tech support was completely un-helpful when I called them. Not knowing that there could possibly be a utility designed to do something like clear the CMOS. 2. In order to get rid of the corrupted passwords, I'd have to buy a new system board, which is $600, which is roughly half of the the TP 365XD goes for these days. I think they should have some work around for registered owners. I could justify paying maybe a couple of hundred to IBM service to take care of this, but as it is, if something goes wrong in which I need to change the CMOS settings or the HD, basically I'll throw the thing away and buy a new computer. (probably not an IBM) Anyway, mea culpa, the machine works for now. I wish I'd risked having some thief get my notebook and use it freely, than use the stupid password and screw up and ruin the TP for myself. By the way, the author of KillCMOS was pretty helpful, but I think, ignorant of IBMs very proprietary security system for ThinkPads. Bill Berry