That's disappointing, sometimes sellers miss things in the description. A few times I've had a bios lock I've actually been able to guess the password. I try *blank* ,1234,password. On my x201 was not so lucky. I could have returned it, but it was is such good condition i decided to keep it, and i was able to unlock it by jumping two pins on the bios chip.

@cephacore

23 күн бұрын

Forgot to mention this, the seller shows the BIOS page in the listing so they must've known but never mentioned it. Shady stuff. .. On the older ThinkPad's (xx40-xx80) you can bypass the BIOS password via CH341 programmer with Badcaps Lenovo AutoPatcher . Might try it in a later vid. BTW love your vids, keep em coming 👍

i got lucky with my t470. i got it for $20 usd and had nothing wrong with it. all i did was upgrade the ram to 16gb and now i use it for random projects i do.

@cephacore

21 күн бұрын

damn that's very lucky. nice find 👌

I think its bad luck, I got an a285 for £100 and it was absolute fine! Honestly, I brought it on ebay from a sponsored seller, it looked sketchy af but the laptop came and it was totally fine. I love it.

@cephacore

21 күн бұрын

That's great to hear, the A series ThinkPads are quite cool tbh

You should also check if computrace (or other anti theft tool) is enabled in the BIOS, if enabled+activated the laptop can be tracked by the company who owned it. 2:18 should be in Security/Absolute Persistence Module.

@cephacore

20 күн бұрын

I checked, it says Enabled but not active. So at some point it must've been. Unfortunately it doesn't resolve the bios lock

Good gaming performance !

Beautiful

Bro i bought 10$ thinkpad with single core processor which now become my daily driver

@cephacore

20 күн бұрын

Wow that's cool, surprised how a single core CPU can run these days. Nice

Since it has bios lock, how are you able to go into the bios?

@cephacore

12 күн бұрын

you can view the bios by enter. you just can't change any settings

What a shame, that laptop looked like an excellent project. I bought a thinkpad a485 for 200 dollars with a charger included, more or less, I bought it because it was in better condition than the old one I had (the poor thing was falling apart, I had had it for a few years already) The chassis is a little broken and somewhat bent, but otherwise it is wonderful; a ryzen 5 2500 pro with 16 gb ram and 256 gb disk. It is a good PC for developers, which is what I work on, the disk is filling up but I will soon buy a 500 GB one to replace it

@cephacore

12 күн бұрын

Completely forgot they made those, the A series thinkpads are quite cool. Might make a vid on one 😄

A lot of these Thinkpads on ebay are ex company, so have bios locked. Some of them have had a hard life and are not worth it. But every now and again you can find a good one.

@cephacore

8 күн бұрын

Yep I get that, it was the seller's responsibility to inform that beforehand.

I returned 2 laptops in the past few weeks for the same reason, BIOS lock. eBay and Cash Converters. A third return because a RAM slot was dodgy... Luck of the draw. However I got a great L480 which makes a great Hackintosh and upgraded to wifi 6e ax210ngf with 32gb.

@cephacore

23 күн бұрын

Hate it when sellers don't disclose full details. It's almost like they try to hide it from less experienced buyers hoping they never notice. eBay is prolific for this.

@vijinho

23 күн бұрын

@@cephacore Yes. These secure permanent BIOS passwords are a real PITA with laptops where removing the CMOS battery does nothing and contribute to unnecessary e-waste. OK sure they are usually fine if you can just reinstall windows but any fine tuning or for other OS is a no-go.

the fact that lenovo still ships TN panels of such low quality in their laptops is shameful I DON'T CARE if it's a budget variant, there's no reason to ship such a crap screen in such an expensive laptop. the macbook air M1 is $600 there's no excuse.

@cephacore

21 күн бұрын

Exactly, although I think they've stopped it with their newer laptops. Still, for such an expensive laptop a TN panel is mad.. it was almost unusable in certain cases.

Would love to see you upgrade a old socketed or not laptop and see how it can perfrom in todays world and see if its usable or not. 🙂

@cephacore

19 күн бұрын

Great idea. I'll have a look to see if I can do that 👌

i would try to fix the bios lock somehow and change the whole body and display

@cephacore

21 күн бұрын

Would love to know how, ik with the older thinkpads it's much easier to remove the bios lock.

@thebyzocker

21 күн бұрын

@@cephacore iirc you need to flash the bios with the newer ones