Lenovo ThinkPad T520 Support Question
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How To Reset Supervisor Password Lenovo T520
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(English) BIOS Setup using Windows Management Instrumentation Deployment Guide - Page 5
... on the local computer . 18 Set a single BIOS setting on the local computer if a supervisor password exists 19 List all current BIOS settings 25 Show a particular BIOS setting 26 Setting a BIOS setting 27
Appendix C. Notices 29
Trademarks 30
© Copyright Lenovo 2008, 2012
iii Script classes and parameters 3
Configuring BIOS settings 3 Return types...
(English) BIOS Setup using Windows Management Instrumentation Deployment Guide - Page 10
...password management, including updating supervisor passwords, power-on passwords, and hard disk drive (HDD) passwords...
Supported computers
BIOS setup through WMI is supported on the following ThinkPad products only: • R400, R500, T400, T500, W500...X201, X201s, T410, T410s, T510, W510 • T420, T420i, T420s, T420si, T520, T520i, W520, X220, X220i, X220 Tablet, X220i Tablet • X1 •...
(English) BIOS Setup using Windows Management Instrumentation Deployment Guide - Page 12
..."load default" is "ascii")
Possible selections
• "abc" - Reboot the system and try again
Password Authentication
If a supervisor password is "abc,ascii,us " - Table 3. Notes: 1. If a supervisor password exists, the correct supervisor password must be made that supervisor password before you must specify that need to an authentication problem.
scancode
• "ascii"
•...
(English) BIOS Setup using Windows Management Instrumentation Deployment Guide - Page 22
...Description
Possible selections
Parameter 1 Password type string
• "pap": Supervisor
• "POP": Power-on passwords (POP) and hard disk passwords (HDP). French-European, Belgian • "gr" - raw ascii character • "1e302e" - If you must reboot the system after changing one of them.
• A password cannot be updated or cleared.
14 Lenovo BIOS Setup using this method...
(English) BIOS Setup using Windows Management Instrumentation Deployment Guide - Page 30
... Next
WScript.Echo strRequest WScript.Echo " SaveBiosSettings: " + strReturn
Set a supervisor password on the local computer when a supervisor password exists. Note: You cannot set a supervisor password on the local computer when a supervisor password exists
Use the sample scripts in the ZIP file as templates to set a supervisor password if one does not already exist.
Syntax: cscript.exe...
Hardware Maintenance Manual - Page 3
... Set 41 Passwords 42
Power-on password 42 Hard-disk password 42 Supervisor password 43 How to remove the power-on password . . . 43
© Copyright Lenovo 2011, 2012
How to remove the hard-disk password . ....49 Undetermined problems 50
Chapter 5. Removing and replacing a FRU 65
Before servicing ThinkPad T520, T520i, and W520 66 1010 Battery pack 66 1020 Serial Ultrabay Enhanced device ...
Hardware Maintenance Manual - Page 37
... Lenovo ThinkVantage® Toolbox program and the PC-Doctor® for DOS diagnostics program
The section provides information about ThinkPad computers that is entered.
To avoid this problem, you initialize the computer configuration, some possible configurations of the computer, PC-Doctor might not apply to false indications of entering the supervisor password; Note: If a supervisor...
Hardware Maintenance Manual - Page 48
...This is entered. Passwords
As many as three passwords may be replaced for any services to reset either the user ...If no activity is available, neither Lenovo nor Lenovo authorized service technicians provide any ThinkPad Notebook: the power-on the screen ...password (POP), the hard-disk password (HDP), and the supervisor password (SVP). Press F10 to restore the original startup sequence....
Hardware Maintenance Manual - Page 49
... the service technician: 1.
How to remove the hard-disk password
Attention: If User only mode is selected and the user HDP has been forgotten and cannot be made available to the service technician, neither Lenovo nor Lenovo authorized service technicians provide any services to reset the user HDPs or to enter the ThinkPad Setup program.
Hardware Maintenance Manual - Page 52
... pressing F10. 2. Run ThinkPad Setup, and then save current
setting by pressing F10.
2. In the displays, n can also help you determine, during regular servicing, what FRUs are likely to need to "Intermittent problems" on page 49.
If no numeric code is displayed, check the narrative descriptions of the supervisor password in the EEPROM...
Hardware Maintenance Manual - Page 55
...password and press Enter. Table 6. System board
1. Reseat all ThinkPad Notebooks purchased on , and a blank LCD during POST. Chapter 4. The hard-disk password prompt appears.
Reseat DIMM.
2.
DIMM 3.
Type the password...
Horizontal or vertical lines displayed on password or a supervisor password is within specification as defective by Lenovo and it should not be due to...
(English) User Guide - Page 4
... 4-in-1 media card reader 199 Installing the driver for USB 3.0 199 Installing ThinkPad Monitor File for preventing problems 221 Security 97
Attaching a mechanical lock 97 Using passwords 97
Passwords and sleep (standby) mode . . . . 98 Typing passwords 98 Power-on password 98 Hard disk passwords 99 Supervisor password 101 Hard disk security 103 Setting the security chip 104 Using...
(English) User Guide - Page 115
... a stationary object.
Attach a mechanical lock to the instructions shipped with the mechanical lock. Using passwords
By using passwords, you power on password or Supervisor password.
If this icon appears, enter Hard disk password. then secure the chain on page 99
© Copyright Lenovo 2012
97 Enter your data. You cannot use them to protect your computer. •...
(English) User Guide - Page 116
...Note: To return to verify it.
10.
Print these instructions. 2. The ThinkPad Setup opens. 5. Select Password. 7. Press Enter once to help protect your computer against access by pressing Fn... line. A Setup Notice window is displayed.
98 User Guide If this icon appears, type a supervisor password. Save all open files, and exit all applications. 3. Select Security, using the computer. Note:...
(English) User Guide - Page 118
... if you just entered to the next line.
If you forget the user-only password, or both user and master passwords, Lenovo cannot reset your password to the next line. Press Enter once to move to set up a user hard disk password first. Click Continue.
13. Attention: You might want to the next line. Otherwise, if...
(English) User Guide - Page 119
... the master hard disk password, type the current master hard disk password in the Enter Current Password field. Press F10 to start the ThinkPad Setup. A Setup Notice window is set, a password prompt appears when you choose User HDP, do the following security features:
• If a supervisor password is displayed.
The master hard disk password will be removed. Without...
(English) User Guide - Page 120
... Lenovo reseller or a Lenovo marketing representative to exit from the Setup Notice window. Enabling or disabling the Internal Network device - Setting a supervisor password Only a system administrator will be prompted to type your password to proceed. Select Security, using the cursor directional keys to move to move down the menu. 6.
- Print these instructions. 2. The ThinkPad...
(English) User Guide - Page 125
... external fingerprint reader is attached. • Security Mode: Specify the settings of the ThinkPad Setup offers the following choices: • Predesktop Authentication: Enable or disable fingerprint authentication ...to the system After you forget your hard disk password, Lenovo cannot reset your hard disk password, or both. If you enroll your fingerprint, log on to the system...
(English) User Guide - Page 242
... state drive.
Be sure not to modify your computer • Only an authorized ThinkPad repair technician should disassemble and repair your fingernail or anything hard. • Using...-
• Before you might cause damage to your body. If you forget a supervisor or hard disk password, Lenovo will not reset it, and
you install any static electricity from a flash media card, such as...
(Arabic) User Guide - Page 108
... ThinkPad Setup Security
Password Supervisor Password Enter New Password Enter Enter Enter
Lenovo Lenovo
Lenovo F10
ThinkPad Setup
1 8
ThinkPad Setup
Enter Current Password Enter New Password
.Confirm New Password 11ﻭ 12
Enter Current Password Enter New Passwordﻭ Confirm New Password...
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