On Tuesday 11 September 2001 00:36, leon wrote:
> I have run into a client who has set a supervisor (or is a supervisor I
> was a little confused by the description) password on the bios of a
> ThinkPad A20. We have contacted IBM and they say the only way to fix
> this issue is to replace the systemboard of the computer. Is this
> true???? That seems super-drastic. Anyone have any better ideas or
Opening the computer and taking out the battery should empty the CMOS
memory after a while. It does, however, take a while - from several minutes
to few hours (?). Few times I managed to over-overclock my computer, and only
fix for this was to take out the battery (motherboard has no jumper for
erasing CMOS); half an hour later, I tried to start it again, but the CMOS
data was still in there. I had to wait more than an hour to get CMOS emptied.
