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Lenovo ThinkPad R61 - Reset CMOS Password

Lenovo ThinkPad R61 - Reset CMOS Password

In this video I attempt to reset the CMOS password for a Lenovo ThinkPad R61. I came close but was not sucessful. I may try again at some point in the future.

Trash Picked Laptop?

I found a stack of probably about 16 ThinkPad R61 laptops in the trash. I salvaged 2 of these laptops for testing purposes. I think at the time I had determined that the entire stack would be worth about $700 on EBay if I were able to sell all of them. This wouldn’t have been woth it for me.

Lenovo ThinkPad R61 trash pile

These laptops working and booted into Windows. They were very old and would not be of much use for anything other than testing and experimentation. The plan was to install Linux or BSD on them for tinkering.

Steps

Here is what I ended up doing:

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