CF-29 service dongle needed

sglass · Post by **sglass** » Thu Aug 20, 2009 11:33 am

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

Post by **SCFR** » Mon Sep 07, 2009 12:13 pm

Have to tried removing the battery on the mother board That worked for me.

sglass · Post by **sglass** » Mon Sep 07, 2009 4:10 pm

SCFR wrote:Have to tried removing the battery on the mother board That worked for me.

nope sure haven't

sounds like my next step

JAYMZ · Post by **JAYMZ** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 1:49 pm

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.

motorola_otaku · Post by **motorola_otaku** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 7:30 am

JAYMZ wrote:The CMOS may not "reset" with the battery pulled... and you may need some sort of CMOS reset tool like KILLCMOS.

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.

I really hope the Toughbooks have an easier solution, because they don't look like they'd be easy to dismantle.

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