laptop locked! Unknown password HELP!

[lamb-chop]

My 7 year old son has just decided to put an unidentified password into our IBM Thinkpad T21 laptop... Is there anyway I can over-ride this? He has no idea what password he has put in, and now every time I switch it on, it shows a padlock and asks for a password!! AAAaaaarggghhhhh!!!
Please can someone help???

 

[psd99]

umm how about ringing up IBM
or the place u got it from? ask them about it.

ive heard u can get programmes that can unlock passwords like this. yes its good for ppl in your situation

but think of all the exploits with this method!

 

[Alf]

umm how about ringing up IBM
or the place u got it from? ask them about it.

no good, the kid put up the password, cant you change it in bios?

 

[Me__2001]

it may be possible to stick the hard drive in a desktop as a slave to retrieve the files

 

[psd99]

no good, the kid put up the password, cant you change it in bios?

maybe ibm have a special command or set of keys to overide this thing?
or even software they can distribute

 

[psd99]

it may be possible to stick the hard drive in a desktop as a slave to retrieve the files

good idea
but i think this person still needs to unlock the password

 

[Ian]

You may be able to open the laptop up to reset the password, but there are overwride tools you can use to remove it - you will need to contact IBM to sort this though.