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About an inch to the right of the mini-PCI (network card) slot

This is 15.4" Intel x3100. With the "new and imporoved Lenovo design" every motherboard is different.

The no-1802 programs don't work on t43 and newer machines.

Try hitting F9 in BIOS (load setup defaults). If that doesn't fix it. it could be the HD isn't seated correctly, bad hard disk or bad motherboard.

Victor knows more about this than I do, but I think the inportant thing in your post is you don't have the keyboard and power applied to your 600. You need to start the machine and hit F1 to get into ...

A bad ground causes those symptoms.

On a T40, the easiest way is to use an alagator clip hooked to the metal pieces (springs) that hold the wireless card into the PCI slot.

The X31 has its security chip on a daughter board at the left front. (right next to the firewire port) Make sure that board is well connected.

look in FAQ

If you are the real owner, Absolute Software can turn it off

I've done R40s. They work just like the others.

If I remember correctly, R30 uses a regular 8-pin R24RF08. It is under the PC card cage and under a black plastic sheet. You need only to remove the keyboard, palmrest and PC card cage.

Is the password chip on the Lenovo 3000 like anything else?

Thanks. I found it.

Does anyone know the location of the BIOS chip on the T4X machines. (T42, if they are different) I'm not talking about the eeprom where the password stuff is stored, but the chip where the (Phoenix? ...