Hi folks,
If anyone has one I can borrow for a few minutes, I'd appreciate it.
I got a used cf-29, and while I was given the bootup bios pw, they didn't have the bios admin pw.
drop me an im if you can help
I did try buiding one, looks lile I built it wrong.
Thanks
Seth
CF-29 service dongle needed
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Re: CF-29 service dongle needed
Have to tried removing the battery on the mother board That worked for me.
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Re: CF-29 service dongle needed
nope sure haven'tSCFR wrote:Have to tried removing the battery on the mother board That worked for me.
sounds like my next step
Re: CF-29 service dongle needed
That may not work...
The CMOS may not "reset" with the battery pulled... and you may need some sort of CMOS reset tool like KILLCMOS. A laptop ('specially a toughbook) is not like a desktop that would have the jumpers to reset the CMOS/BIOS to a default state.
The CMOS may not "reset" with the battery pulled... and you may need some sort of CMOS reset tool like KILLCMOS. A laptop ('specially a toughbook) is not like a desktop that would have the jumpers to reset the CMOS/BIOS to a default state.
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Re: CF-29 service dongle needed
On the IBM Thinkpad line at least, you can reset the BIOS by pulling the battery but it won't reset the password. To do that, you have to dismantle the computer to access an EEPROM on the motherboard and read it out.JAYMZ wrote:The CMOS may not "reset" with the battery pulled... and you may need some sort of CMOS reset tool like KILLCMOS.
I really hope the Toughbooks have an easier solution, because they don't look like they'd be easy to dismantle.