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Also Theophilix, you shouldn't have do any soldering on the locked laptop. You can just solder your interface wires to mid-size sewing needles, and jab a sewing needle tip on each chip leg during read ...

The Allservice regulars seem to be out, so here goes. I haven't done a T420, but I believe all these later model Thinkpads have encrypted passwords, and your dump looks that way to me. You might save ...

John and Victor - I would like to add my thanks. I've used r24rf08 quite a bit, and always make a little batch file for execution. Since changing to probes, I always get my wife to hit Enter to execu ...

Unless you created a path to the directory containing R24RF08.exe, or made the path part of the command line, you will first have to change to the directory containing R24RF08.exe to execute it. Not k ...

The "24RF08" chip on the Thinkpad Edge 11 Type 0328-A11 is labeled L08. It is located on the non-cpu side of the motherboard, about where the left edge of the touchpad would be. The follow ...

Anyone know whether the Edge 11 (Type 0328-A11) has the usual 24RF08 setup? All I can find using search is Edge 13, 14, 15 and Exxx info. Thanks.

IdeaPad Z565 SVP locked. Anyone know if this model is the 24RF08 type, and if so, what is the chip nomenclature and where is the chip located? Any help much appreciated.

empty - try the calculator in the first message of this thread. good luck.

janmrkva - 5872853. Or, use the calculator link in the first message of this thread.

tropan - The calculator should work with VGN-FS. You may have a swapped motherboard carrying a different serial. Try the things in the Boris da Blue thread, immediately above your post.

Boris - You might try hitting Pause (sometimes Fn-Pause or Alt-Pause) to stop the display before the p/w prompt. Also, if you want to go to the trouble, you might try installing a linux distro such ...

Boris - If you took the s/n from the case, the motherboard may have been changed at some point, and whoever changed it didn't change the label on the case. If you can boot it at all, it might flash t ...

wiman - Can't help with VGN-Z. Someone else may have some insight.

wiman - try 3871768. Also, see first message in this thread for future use.

dpl - Go here: http://www.allservice.ro/sony/