Wayne_Zombie
New Member
Ok, I am really new to electronics and have a big problem. I have an IBM laptop that I forgot the admin password to. Aparently the password will not clear when you remove the battery backup and so now I determined that it is stored in the EEPROM. I found all this info at this site: http://www.ja.axxs.net/unlock/key_for_390x.htm
Now for the fun part... this site wants me to build a device to read the EEPROM and dump it to an encrypted file that only this guy can read. I have to send the file to him, he will decrypt it and read the contents and for $50 tell me my password. I want to get around this and just read the EEPROM myself. Problem is that I have no idea what I'm doing as far as the EEPROM reading. Looking online, I find many EEPROM readers and software to acompany them, but none of them seem to be able to read 24RF08 EEPROMS. When I do a search online for just that number, all I get is references to that laptop or places I can buy the chip. I want to know if reading the EEPROM is the same from model to model, and if so, how can I read the eeprom? Is buying one of these reader devices and using the software that comes with them going to work? I need any advice I can get.
Now for the fun part... this site wants me to build a device to read the EEPROM and dump it to an encrypted file that only this guy can read. I have to send the file to him, he will decrypt it and read the contents and for $50 tell me my password. I want to get around this and just read the EEPROM myself. Problem is that I have no idea what I'm doing as far as the EEPROM reading. Looking online, I find many EEPROM readers and software to acompany them, but none of them seem to be able to read 24RF08 EEPROMS. When I do a search online for just that number, all I get is references to that laptop or places I can buy the chip. I want to know if reading the EEPROM is the same from model to model, and if so, how can I read the eeprom? Is buying one of these reader devices and using the software that comes with them going to work? I need any advice I can get.