[Wolves] Ron hows the wlug laptop

[Peter Cannon]

On Tuesday 06 September 2005 15:54, Andrew Lewis wrote:

> CAREFUL! You might already know this, but some thinkpads can be rendered
> completely useless if the bios battery is disconnected for too long.
> It's a password issue - you can password the disk, bios and boot on some
> thinkpads, and if the battery dies, the passwords get overwritten with
> garbage, and there is no way to set it to blank when this has happened.
> IBM's own solution for this (big fanfare from the 'not thinking ahead'
> department) is "replace the motherboard"!?*$

I've got three motherboards here :)

-- 
Regards
Peter Cannon
Fedora Core 4 & Suse 9.3

"There is every excuse for not knowing,
There is no excuse for not asking!"
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