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johanneke · Nou Venit Joined: 21 Oct 2006 Posts: 3

I read trough the forum but did not find a solution to my problem.
I have a Thinkpad T22 I soldered the wire to the eeprom as found on the westsite of ***. build the programmer - reader.
Using the soft ware he provides I am able to read the eeprom on my laptop Thinkpad 600. with the serial port on Com3. The bin-file this software is some how not readable with the IBMpass2 software.
So I followed everything I foudn on this site.
If I want to read the eeprom I keep receiving the above error.
I think it has to do with the com port. beeing 3 instead of one.
Can I somehow change this?
I used an other computer with a serial port on Come one but that gives me the same error.
I have several Thinkpads to unlock and donot want to pay 45$ each time for the password.

bob · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 4:34 pm Post subject:

IBMpass can show passwords from original dumps that were not altered.
What TP it is 600, 600e, 600x? Is it using 24RF08 or 24C01?

R24RF08 is working on COM1 only, if a PC has serial ports (built-in) then COM1 is a must. You have to use native COM ports (on-board controllers or UART based) and the interface must be the driven-i2c programmer.

Check the schematic differences against the driven programmer, see driven-i2cprog.pdf in the R24RF08 kit, but as far as I know the circuit you built is a clone and must work.
When execute the software use "/x /d /i" in command line:

johanneke · Nou Venit Joined: 21 Oct 2006 Posts: 3

The Thinkpad I am running the software on is a thinkpad 600. The thinkpad with the password is a T22. I'am using Windows 98 and my native compard is com3.
Is there a possibility to change the compart nummber in Windows?

In device manager it is no wher used. Only com 2 Modem and Com 3 serial port.
infra red port is using a virual comport.

bob · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 4:46 pm Post subject:

Oh, I see. T600 has a native serial port but I guess is set to COM3. You can change the setting in the BIOS the I/O:
3F8 /IRQ4 - COM1

For IR you can set 2F8/IRQ3 which is the base for COM2.
The modem usually have to be COM3 or COM4 which have different addreses but same interrupt as COM1 and COM2.

[Edit]
Windows 9x detects the changes at start up, if not, the only way is to delete the ports in Device manager and add them again.

johanneke · Nou Venit Joined: 21 Oct 2006 Posts: 3

How do I change the com port on the TP600? pressing F1 at boot up gives me only the possibility of easy setup.
is there a setup diskette?

I also tried the eepromreader on a compaq laptop and a computer both have a serial port at com 1.
But I keetp getting the Error: Eeprom not available.

With keymaker it is working fine.
Could it be that the software is not working on some machines?

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

I think your interface is not working right with our software so be sure you build one that works.