On Thursday 08 April 2010 20:45:34 ron minnich wrote:
I have a lenovo x300 somebody set the password on and ... as you guess, forgot.
As Rudof suggested, you can probably use the master password for recovery if it works.
Otherwise I recommend for such situations the cmospwd utility from cgsecurity (also pretty well know for their testdisk utility). As far I used the cmospwd utility it worked like a charm.
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/CmosPwd
So, question: anyone have any idea how deep into the machine the password is kept no new machines? Deep in TPM?
I think it's most likely stored in CMOS/EEPROM, but the solutions on that goal varies from manufacturer to manufacturer.
in other words, were flashrom to work on this box, can the password be reset?
Try to use the tool mentioned above, I had until now always success with that.
ron
Harald