[Thinkpad] T40: no place to enter bios supervisor password

[paul]

Yes, I have the power-on password set. When I power on these are the steps:

a) press "Access IBM" button
b) enter power-on or supervisor password
c) click on "Setup Utility" in pre-desktop area

and I end up in user-mode, regardless of which password I enter in step b).

The thing is that I have set the supervisor password as the power-on 
password only with one letter uppercase, like "hello" (power-on) and 
"hEllo" (supervisor). Is it possible that the passwords are not 
case-sensitive and using the same password for power-on and supervisor 
creates the issue I have?

Jon Etkins wrote on 8/6/2007 7:52 PM:
> So when you power it on, you don't get *any* password prompt?  If you do, but you're entering your power-on password, you won't get prompted again; use your supervisor password instead.
>
> paul wrote:
>   
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I have a strange problem with my T40 (type 2373-42G) : At some point I 
>> played around and enabled/entered a bios supervisor password. I know 
>> this password. But when I enter the Bios Settings (from the predesktop 
>> area) there is no place to enter the password. I understand that I 
>> should be queried for this password when entering the bios setup, but 
>> that doesnt happen. So I basically can not change any bios settings 
>> anymore.
>>     
>
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