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Question posted by janarild40 on April 7th, 2014

T420s Died When I Was Trying To Get Into Bios To Change A Power On Password?

Due to a recent recovery (using files downloaded :( ) i seem to have got a power on/SSD password, at first i thought it was a supervisior password, but the picture next to it was of a "screen" (rectangular). Knowing i had not set it i stilli tried all my passwords or possible passwords, and i could not get passed this. After f..."%$#&$#" for a while and reading about possible reasons over the "whole" internet :-P I tried several times to boot into BIOS, normally and with F1 key pressed, when i finally got in (F1) it simply died after a minute or 2

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