[ale] thinkpad recovery

[Adrin]

I was just about to suggest a password of 1234.

I forgot that I had hacked one of these by turning off the security
chip.  Then just boot from a CD and changing the admin password.
Maybe I got lucky



On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 13:23 -0500, Geoffrey wrote:
> Talked to Lenovo support and they now say the security chip in the 
> laptop is bad.  I was able to set the security chip to 'disabled' in the 
> bios and then do a successful restore.  No security chip, but the box is 
> at least now usable.
>