[ale] thinkpad recovery

[Ken Cochran]

Confirming my suspicion...  Glad you got it back "operable."

My impression is that without the "security chip," the Thinkpad
is rather similar to other (good) laptop computers and that
chip was/is probably only worthwhile for Windows anyway.

-kc

>Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:23:27 -0500
>From: Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com>
>To: ale at ale.org
>Subject: Re: [ale] thinkpad recovery
>
>Talked to Lenovo support and they now say the security chip in the
>laptop is bad.  I was able to set the security chip to 'disabled' in the
>bios and then do a successful restore.  No security chip, but the box is
>at least now usable.
>
>--
>Until later, Geoffrey