how do i get rid of this cancer? i bought a thinkpad at a garage

Give it back Tyrone

>buying a stolen thinkpad

>>59118310
You have to short two solder points on the mobo but it's totally random for each motherboard. Fortunately shorting two random points rarely does anything bad so good luck!

>>59118310
lmao fucking idiot

>>59118310
Call the number and ask them nicely to remove their software from their thinkpad.

reflash bios

>>59118372
This op

If it won't let you flash with a run of the mill ThinkPad bios, you're SOL.

>>59118350
or just take the battery out
not that that will remove it from the bios

>>59118310
There's almost not way you can get rid of it. You can try calling those Computrace people but if you don't have proof that you bought it legally they will probably report you to the police or something.

>>59118310
>buying thinktrash
Your deserve this op.

>>59118506
yeah that'll work if it's a computer from 2006

>>59118402
Thinkpads have nonvolatile ROMS, so you can't flash certain things away like the BIOS password or this.

>>59118310
give it back watermelondrea

>>59118735
You actually can get rid of the BIOS password by shorting 2 eeprom pins at specific times during boot.
You'd probably have to flash coreboot to kill computrace though.

Se it for Deactivated/Disabled and it'll never bother you again. If you can't change the setting then you're screwed and you're not going to be getting rid of that shit anytime soon. It has nothing to do with the BIOS itself, it's an entirely separate chip.

>thinking you can get around CompuTrace once it's enabled and the setting can't be changed
>you kids are funny

>>59118889
it can't be removed, but you can delete/modify the rpcnet files to prevent it from phoning home at least

>>59118735
wouldnt coreboot bypass this? you need a hardware flasher to install it tho