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Thanks Victor.

The HDD is totally encased by the caddy.

Do you open the caddy by removing the 2 screws on either side of the long connector strip?

Thanks

Hi Victor,

Thanks for the info.

I removed the hard drive and the TP355c booted into the BIOS EasyStart screen in order to reset the time and date.

The floppy drive also proved to be faulty - ...

I have previously successfully unlocked a 380XD and 600E

I have recently acquired a very old but mint condition TP355c -type 2619-L55. The 355c was manufactured in 1994.

At boot up I get errors ...

Hi Victor. Thanks for the feedback.

So it looks like I will need to dismantle another of my Thinkpad collection !!!! Sad

Thanks to your help I previously found the BIOS password for my old 600E a ...

I have an old 570e running Windows 2000.

At boot up, I am getting 0189 error. I have done some research and established that the error is "invalid RFID configuration information area. The EEPR ...

Many thanks for your help Victor - I have now successfully unlocked both my 380XD and 600E!!

The MAX232 driven circuit worked perfect - I modified an old Nokia data cable!!

The only minor proble ...

Hi Victor,

I am the "future owner" - so I guess its allright!! Smile

There was no hard drive and caddy with my TP380XD Sad

However, I understand that the TP380XD uses the same hard driv ...

Thanks Victor.

Assuming I completely reassemble the TP380XD with SCL , SCA , GND connected , would it be OK to eventually leave "short" wires attached when eeprom reading is finished?

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I have built the driven MAX232 circuit.

Is it possible to read the 24c01 eeprom on a TP380XD without having to actually reassemble and power up the TP380XD??

To access the 24c01 on a TP380XD inv ...

Hi Victor ,

I downloaded IBMpass2.1 again and it now works OK on Windows ME - many thanks for your help.

Hi Victor.

I am actually using IBMpass2.1 which I downloaded about 5 days ago.

Has IBMpass2.1 been updated in the last few days?

Will IBMpass1 work OK with Windows ME?

Thanks

I have just tried installing the r24rf08 eeprom reader and the IBMpass2 decoder.

The r24rf08 installed OK. The IBMpass2 installed BUT when I run the program I get "IBMpass2 has caused an error ...

Thanks Victor - will replace the caps with 1uF.

Yes , the COM port is set up for RS232 TXD/RXD but mod is easy.

Apart from the 22uF caps, I just need to:
- switch a cap to pin 2 to 16 (instea ...

I am modifying an old Nokia RS232/TTL data cable which uses a MAX232CPE.

The Nokia data cable is a "3rd party" device which is built into an "interface box" rather than the DB-9 ...

Victor - can I just read the 24C01 without reassembling the 380XD and powering it up?

Also, do you know whether anybody has found any "solder pads/PCB tracks" which link to SDA/SLC pins t ...