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  Topic: Interpreting 93C46 EEPROM dump of Thinkpad 760EL
DarkSamus9000

Replies: 8
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PostForum: IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad Password Help Center (EN)   Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2025 2:12 pm   Subject: Interpreting 93C46 EEPROM dump of Thinkpad 760EL
OMG you're right, that's it! NCD!

I re-assembled the laptop enough to power it on & check, and sure enough that's it!

I will come back from work today & clear the password with the hard ...
  Topic: Interpreting 93C46 EEPROM dump of Thinkpad 760EL
DarkSamus9000

Replies: 8
Views: 44087

PostForum: IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad Password Help Center (EN)   Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2025 2:03 pm   Subject: Interpreting 93C46 EEPROM dump of Thinkpad 760EL
Well, for now I am still stubbornly trying to bitbang this chip myself. The CH341A is cheap enough, but I want to see if I can use the tools at my disposal for now.

How will I know when I have a su ...
  Topic: Interpreting 93C46 EEPROM dump of Thinkpad 760EL
DarkSamus9000

Replies: 8
Views: 44087

PostForum: IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad Password Help Center (EN)   Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2025 7:19 am   Subject: Interpreting 93C46 EEPROM dump of Thinkpad 760EL
Hello Victor,

Thanks a lot for your response. I previously tried using ponyprog on my raspberry pi 4, but it could not detect any chip with the probe function; so I pulled out an old thinkpad with ...
  Topic: Interpreting 93C46 EEPROM dump of Thinkpad 760EL
DarkSamus9000

Replies: 8
Views: 44087

PostForum: IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad Password Help Center (EN)   Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2025 8:41 pm   Subject: Interpreting 93C46 EEPROM dump of Thinkpad 760EL
I realized I could try reading the chip as 128x8 instead of 64x16. So, per the datasheet (https://www.alldatasheet.com/datasheet-pdf/pdf/23849/STMICROELECTRONICS/ST93C46A.html), I connected the ORG pi ...
  Topic: Interpreting 93C46 EEPROM dump of Thinkpad 760EL
DarkSamus9000

Replies: 8
Views: 44087

PostForum: IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad Password Help Center (EN)   Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2025 6:30 pm   Subject: Interpreting 93C46 EEPROM dump of Thinkpad 760EL
Greetings everybody,

After a long journey, I believe I have finally succeeded in reading the EEPROM off of my Thinkpad 760EL. The chip is a 93C46, and I read it using an arduino and the circuit des ...
 
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