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Reset Lenovo T61 manageability settings to factory defaults
By Ajith Illendula (Intel) (9 posts) on June 6, 2008 at 2:41 pm
When you lose/forget the ME/AMT password, only way to recover from the situation is to reset the settings to factory defaults. Depending on the OEM/BIOS implementations, the path to factory defaults varies.
Lets take a look at how we can achieve this on a Lenovo T61 laptop. The following steps worked for me.
- Power on the system and during the boot up, holding onto F1 key will let you into BIOS.
- Once you are in the BIOS, browse to Config->Intel AMT
- Change the Intel AMT settings to "disabled", save the settings and exit
- After the BIOS settings are saved, the system will automatically reboot
- On the power up, you will see a message about finishing the unconfiguration of AMT, do you want to continue (Yes/NO) -- Select Yes
- This will unconfigure all of AMT/ME settings and all the passwords are reset
- You will need to enter BIOS again, browse to Config->Intel AMT, change Intel AMT setting to "Enabled"
- After the BIOS settings are saved, next time when the system is powering up, you will need to hit "ctrl-P" to configure ME/AMT again.
- This time you will be using the default ME password ("admin")
- You know the drill from here :-)
If there are any further questions, feel free to post your questions on the manageability forum.
Categories: Manageability
Comments(4)
| July 21, 2008 11:16 AM PDT
Ajith Illendula (Intel)
| Do you have the hard drive password enabled? I am guessing that screen you are seeing is for hard drive password. If so, you will need to contact Lenovo on how to reset that password or any other tricks to get into the BIOS. |
July 30, 2008 9:32 AM PDT
 Andrey | The same works on the Acer TravelMate 6592G 301G20 with the only exception - the system did not ask confirmation for finishing of unconfiguration. |
| September 17, 2008 10:54 AM PDT
ATTN ThinkPad Users - Need Help ASAP - Club Polk | [...] http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2008/...tory-defaults/ [...] |
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