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[gmp]

Hello Victor,

i have also my t61 with missed password and in Bios passphrase was enabled.
Can you help me?

Greets from Germany!
Thomas

[victor]

We need to see the eeprom dump first off to confirm the TCPA lock.
When confirmed, well, in that case you need to purchase the following:

TCPA unlock service.............$25
W24RF08 license.................$30 (license per seat, unlimited use)
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Total....................................$55

The eeprom writer has unlimited use (next time you will purchase only the service, when necessary).

How to proceed further:
1. Download and install W24RF08 from www.allservice.ro/store/utils/ (on same PC used with reader is preferable)
2. Fill out the registration form (register.doc that is in the kit) with payment details and hardware ID generated by the program and email it to us. PayPal account is support@allservice.ro
3. We will email you the activation keys along with the patched binary dump (we need the original dump to be patched) and the laptop will be unlocked in minutes.

I guess you already got the answer in reply to your email.
Regards,
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Victor Voinea
ALLservice HQ, Romania.

[gmp]

Hello Victor,

the registration form and dumpfile i have sent as answer to your email.
I payed with paypal.
Thank you.

Greets from Germany
Thomas

[t1m917]

Vitor,

What is the TCPA unlocking service you are referring to? I thought we just have to purchase the W24F08 program license to deactivate the passphrase? Can you shed some light on this as I'm new to the subject and still catching up on reading the older post.

Thanks,
Tim

[victor]

W24RF08 is only a eeprom writer software. TCPA lock is when the passphrase is enabled in BIOS making all passwords hashed and duplicated and processed through TCPA subsystem. The work we do to prepare the dump is the TCPA unlock service.

Services that we offer:
-TCPA unlock - this include Computrace deactivation by default. One of these is offered as bonus in PC8394 programming tools.
-CRC recovery/repair - one of these is offered as bonus in W24RF08 package.
-Computrace deactivation for Thinkpads.
-Serial/UUID change and RFID reset.
-Thinkpad BIOS recovery - recovery from a bad BIOS update or when TCPA signature was lost, to avoid 0192 error.

-All services (apart from those bonuses included with the software) are $25 each AND require PC8394 tools or W24RF08 licenses, depending on model.
-BIOS recovery require our SPEG - universal serial flash programmer.

Thanks
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Victor Voinea
ALLservice HQ, Romania.

[t1m917]

Hi Victor,

Thanks for the quick response. I have a T61 model and it has a supervisory password with passphrase enable as I have already made a binary dump of the eeprom. It is strange that on the dump and using ibmpass lite 2.1 I can see only 0x10, 0x20, 0x30, etc... Some of the members are reading 0x338 in there eeprom dump. I do not get that in my dump.

I have used another TP with docking station to do the eeprom dump. One memeber suggest that is not a good idea. Is there any truth to that? I will try the dump again and fill out the registration doc to send in. Your comments and suggestions are most appreciated.

Thanks,
Tim

[victor]

Blindly, I can only asume you mistakenly used r24C01.exe instead of r24rf08.exe
Docking serial port is fine, if the dock works. In rest just myths and personal opinions
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Victor Voinea
ALLservice HQ, Romania.

[t1m917]

Hi Victor,

I've downloaded the most recent reader from the download section. Thanks for the note. I've might of have used the wrong reader. I will try again and post my results.

Thanks,
Tim

[victor]

R24RF08 package contains both readers, one for 24C01 eeproms used in earlier models called R24C01. And R24RF08 for 24RF08 eeproms - that you missed in command line.
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Victor Voinea
ALLservice HQ, Romania.

[t1m917]

Hi Victor,

Thanks again for the quick reply. I'm trying that right now. I'm using the simple circuit to start off with. I have P24S08 IC which I read in your forum is equivalent to the 24RF08 IC.

On the forum I read that the ground can be tie to the metal chasis instead of pin 4 of the IC. What I did was tie the ground from the motherboard to the ground on the RS-232 pin 5 ground instead of going from pin 4 ground of the P24S08 IC. Does this make any differences? Ground is ground from what I know about electronics. I've measure the voltage from ground to one of the zener diode and I could see 5V being regulated from the zener. I just didn't want to solder to pin 4 of the IC as more soldering is more hassle in my opinion.

Thanks,
Tim