<div dir="ltr">It requires disassembly of the machine to access the bios chip and a pair of unlabeled pins that deactivate the bios scanner need. Normally this is done with the supervisor BIOS password and the hardware hack is dubious at best.<br>
<br>I bet I know what it was donated.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Daniel Howard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dhhoward@comcast.net">dhhoward@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I just got an IBM (Lenovo) Z60t donated for use as a thin client, and<br>
unfortunately it has a fingerprint scanner that appears to be linked to<br>
the BIOS and won't let me boot from CD ROM w/o fingerprint scan or even<br>
log on and start the traditional boot process.<br>
<br>
Any suggestions as to how I can reset this thing to install a new OS?<br>
<br>
Daniel<br>
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