Antarctica32
August 30th, 2011, 09:32 PM
Ok, well it all started when my theology teacher gave me his old laptop (thinkpad R30, Pentium 3, 128 mbs ram, rather old) So I could install linux and use it for my eagle scout project:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1676724
So i took it home and booted it and happened to notice that he had created a supervisor password. It prevented me from accessing the bios setup, which really wasn't that big of a problem because I could find the exact specs from inside linux eventually. Nevertheless i took it back to school the next day and asked if he remembered the password, he didn't. I spent a few weeks trying to find a reasonable way to reset the supervisor password with no luck. In the end I attempted to install lucid with no luck (it was worth a shot). after that the R30 spent a few months untouched in my basement, until yesterday when i decided to try to install xubuntu. I wanted to boot into windows 1 last time so i started it and the ibm thinkpad screen came up with the "F1 for setup, F12 for temporary boot device"after that I expected to see the windows 2000 boot screen but instead saw 2 error messages 1:System battery is dead replace and run setup 2: real time clock error. So i figure it would just boot into 2000 with the stupid cmos battery being wrong and I really wouldn't care. But instead a password prompt came up. I figured that it wanted me to reset the clock in bios, but to access bios i need the password. So after about 3 hours of me and my dad trying passwords and different things to get around having to reset the time my dad discovered that you can just press enter without entering a password and it will take you to bios, but you can't do anything important ie: change the time or change the password. I think I am really stuck on this one. I now turn to you all here at the ubuntu forums, you are my only hope. I offer a reward of 3 Kudos and 5 Internets to the user that either solves my problem or helps me the most.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1676724
So i took it home and booted it and happened to notice that he had created a supervisor password. It prevented me from accessing the bios setup, which really wasn't that big of a problem because I could find the exact specs from inside linux eventually. Nevertheless i took it back to school the next day and asked if he remembered the password, he didn't. I spent a few weeks trying to find a reasonable way to reset the supervisor password with no luck. In the end I attempted to install lucid with no luck (it was worth a shot). after that the R30 spent a few months untouched in my basement, until yesterday when i decided to try to install xubuntu. I wanted to boot into windows 1 last time so i started it and the ibm thinkpad screen came up with the "F1 for setup, F12 for temporary boot device"after that I expected to see the windows 2000 boot screen but instead saw 2 error messages 1:System battery is dead replace and run setup 2: real time clock error. So i figure it would just boot into 2000 with the stupid cmos battery being wrong and I really wouldn't care. But instead a password prompt came up. I figured that it wanted me to reset the clock in bios, but to access bios i need the password. So after about 3 hours of me and my dad trying passwords and different things to get around having to reset the time my dad discovered that you can just press enter without entering a password and it will take you to bios, but you can't do anything important ie: change the time or change the password. I think I am really stuck on this one. I now turn to you all here at the ubuntu forums, you are my only hope. I offer a reward of 3 Kudos and 5 Internets to the user that either solves my problem or helps me the most.