[clue] BIOS password clears?

[Mike Bean]

Yeah, I did; but unfortunately, it's still stuck.  As much as I hate
calling tech support, I called IBM; I  suspect they're going to have me try
a jumper combination I haven't already tried.  Oh well, live and learn.


On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Quentin Hartman <qhartman at gmail.com> wrote:

> One nuance of the password reset jumpers that people often forget is that
> you have to set them into the reset position and power the machine up,
> possible answering some prompts and getting into the BIOS before it will
> actually reset.
>
> Did you do that?
>
> QH
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 6:52 AM, Mike Bean <beandaemon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> We're having some trouble getting past a badly set BIOS password at my
>> work.  I've tried booting it to backup UEFI as well as the jumper password
>> reset, as well as all known passwords and combinations of passwords.  It's
>> an IBM x240 compute node. I'm trying to clear the administrator password on
>> the BIOS, and I know this is a hail mary at best, but I tried pulling the
>> CMOS battery.   (Frankly, I'm not even confident that BIOS/UEFI even works
>> like that anymore, but I'm running out of ideas short of calling IBM and
>> that's never fun.)   Any suggestions?
>>
>> Mike
>>
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