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In the past several weeks I've learned a lot from this forum and its community especially from all the folks who contributed to THIS thread
With some trial and error I was able to reliably patch BIOS dumps for SVP-locked Lenovo machines up to the 8th generation using the info, tools, and files provided on this forum. After some practice and positive feedback from users I helped I've noticed that, once learned, the process is fairly straightforward, so I've developed a small python script to automate it and allow everyone to patch their own binaries without...
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I have had six of these cells so far which are only used in a wireless mouse, two at a time, and are rotated every week or so. They have maybe 50 cycles on them, and are charged in a Panasonic BQ-CC63 charger. One seemed to have failed prematurely - the charger would just flash the LED and not charge regardless of what slot they were inserted into, and only that specific battery was affected. Voltage was within range so I'm not entirely sure what fault it was detecting? Anyway I replaced the battery. Now today two more have failed in exactly the same way. I'm doubting it's the charger as it's...
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by SuborQHi, can anyone help to remove the password from this bios please?
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