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karyadi · Nou Venit Joined: 25 Mar 2007 Posts: 1 Location: indonesia

Hi Victor, I need help to find the password, I have a T40, I used the simple circuit to read the eeprom, but the 0x330, 0x340 is empty, but the t40 ask for the password when it turns on. what could be the password? Thanks in advance

victor · S.F. Boss Joined: 07 Mar 2004 Posts: 2581 Location: Staff

The password is the drive password or the POP, because it is clear that the BIOS SVP is not set.
POP- remove the CMOS battery for a few seconds, HDP - replace the drive.
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williamdangaustralia · Nou Venit Joined: 22 May 2007 Posts: 7

i have the same problem with karyadi, i did remove battery (is battery place in yellow plastic wrap and out with 2 wires 1 black and 1 red?)..i also remove hdd drive but it's still doesn't work..the lock sign still appear on the screen ..my TP is T42..BOD has show remove battery but still does not work....please help...

richk · Interesat Joined: 11 Nov 2006 Posts: 29

When you pull the CMOS battery, it must also be unplugged from A/C and have main battery removed

williamdangaustralia · Nou Venit Joined: 22 May 2007 Posts: 7

thank you million million time RICHK,,,now i can access into BIOS but i have hhd lock i think i need to replace hhd...also thank you to BOD and Victor for their wonderful help to myself and to all the other.....

is anyother way to unlock hhd? may be i asking for too much..

when i run itester.exe it's show that SDAin 1 and SDAout/SCLout 1
some time it's back to 0..i'm not sure that is any thing wrong with my voltage? but i do succee get dump.bin file from ATMEL 24RF08 CHIP..

victor · S.F. Boss Joined: 07 Mar 2004 Posts: 2581 Location: Staff

Hi William,

There is a way to unlock the HD but the software is too expensive just for one drive. But many workshops around the world use our software by now, if you would email us your location maybe one of them could help you.

The pwd logos are explained here:
http://www.allservice.ro/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2326#2326
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williamdangaustralia · Nou Venit Joined: 22 May 2007 Posts: 7

thank you victor ,i have been ask for the quote to unlock my hhd but it's more expensive than i expected..i'm now buy new one it's more cheap than unlock it...once again thanks victor for your great software..... Smile

kandi · Nou Venit Joined: 08 Jun 2007 Posts: 4

bob · Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 7:20 pm Post subject:

As far as I understand williamdangaustralia succesfully dumped the laptop's eeprom, but he didn't have a SVP afterall.

@kandi: An eeprom dump can't be empty. You just didn't read correctly, the circuit or the wires are connected wrong.
It is clear that your laptop is having a supervisor password and that is in the 24RF08. You have to read the eeprom for good, it is the only way to unlock the TP

kandi · Nou Venit Joined: 08 Jun 2007 Posts: 4

victor · S.F. Boss Joined: 07 Mar 2004 Posts: 2581 Location: Staff

We can;t help you by just talking, we need to see pictures and to know how you connect to the eeprom, to the COM port etc.

The programmer must respect the schematic, I don't know what you have there, but definitelly is not working.

Email the pictures to support_at_allservice.ro
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waynesdukeess · Nou Venit Joined: 04 Jul 2008 Posts: 5 Location: Warren,OH

Hi All, I have searched forum for hours could not find help. I run

"C:\ALLService\24RF08\R24RF08 dump.bin"

I get int and file dump ok, I look in folder,24rf08, there is no file dump.bin. So I run again, I get "file exist do you want to over wright
y or n. I sel y and get another 1024 dump. Still can not find file dump.
this is from TP X41 using T30 as Tech PC. I'm running IBM Pass 2;0 Lite
with Win7. I have tried DOS I see the EEPROM dumping data but cannot find where it went(the dump.bin file. I have followed all this good info
no problems untill know. Maybe its because I wii be 70yrs this year.

Much thanks for help

Wayne
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victor · S.F. Boss Joined: 07 Mar 2004 Posts: 2581 Location: Staff

If you run the command in console and you're not in the same folder with the reader, then the dump will be saved in the current folder where you are at the run-time, not in the program's folder.

A quick fix is to add the path to the file name

waynesdukeess · Nou Venit Joined: 04 Jul 2008 Posts: 5 Location: Warren,OH

Thanks Victor for super fast response, No run box in Win7 finally my old mind rem " Command CD\" I did: C:\ALLService\24RF08\R24RF08 C:\dump.bin same thing file exist over write y or n I did y again
no find it did search C: this time found dump.bin. file. Do not know how it gets to VirtualStore. How can I still use? Do want copy of dump.bin file?
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victor · S.F. Boss Joined: 07 Mar 2004 Posts: 2581 Location: Staff

Well done.

Install IBMpass from here www.allservice.ro/store/utils/
Double click the file to open it in IBMpass, click the AA button (ON), then goto 0x330 line and there's the pass in clear text.

If there's no password, email us the dump to take a look. support-at-allservice.ro

Best wishes
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