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At least for Lenovo/IBM, that's what they want you to think; but anyone with knowledge of the third-party repair industry knows that isn't true at all:

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/maintenance#Recovering_BIOS_pa....

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That is very old information and not up to date (newest laptop in that list is 14 years old). Resetting a BIOS password for newer models requires a bit of voodoo (booting up with what looks like a debug BIOS to retrieve info from somewhere else in the system).

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