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  • badzymandiaz
    New Member
    • Sep 2025
    • 4
    • USA

    #1

    Thinkpad P14s Gen 4, BIOS Supervisor Password

    I have a laptop that was purchased second-hand, and I am able to boot Windows on and extract the BIOS dump (ONLY the BIOS region, I was unable to dump anything else due to an FCERR I received trying to dump the other regions) and use normally. However, because the BIOS is locked with a supervisor password, I am unable to use anything else except for Windows, and it has also disabled some hardware features of the laptop itself, such as the fingerprinting module, etc. that I really do wish to use.

    I have been digging around for nearly 2 weeks trying to find any mention of the same model and generation, but received mixed results and nothing that has verifiably worked. So, I am posting on this forum in hopes of getting some help from people much more experienced than I am!

    Device: Thinkpad P14s Gen 4
    Device S/N: PF4RTEFN
    Motherboard S/N: L1HF419003T

    Thank you in advance for your help! Please reach out to me if you need any further information/clarification. For some reason I'm just not able to upload the bios dump file due to an extension error... so I used .txt instead. I think the binary contents are intact.
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  • Maxpower3
    Bad Veteran
    • Feb 2018
    • 1602
    • France

    #2
    Originally posted by badzymandiaz
    BIOS is locked with a supervisor password
    Probably an nm-e972 card with a Mec1724 chip so reading the ec, no other possible solution.
    need a compatible EC programmer

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    • badzymandiaz
      New Member
      • Sep 2025
      • 4
      • USA

      #3
      Fair enough, thank you for your guidance. I will go ahead and read up on some of the Badcap guides to see what can be done, and update progress here if I ever make any.

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      • badzymandiaz
        New Member
        • Sep 2025
        • 4
        • USA

        #4
        Do you know of any particular EC programmer that can work with MEC1724? Even on the hardware support list of the SVOD 4, it doesn't explicitly mention supporting the MEC17xx series... Don't see it on the Vertyanov support list, either.

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        • adamgouadma
          Badcaps Veteran
          • Jul 2017
          • 260
          • setif

          #5
          Do SVOD 4 software supports this.The matter

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          • Stefan Steff
            Badcaps Veteran
            • Mar 2024
            • 666
            • Romania

            #6
            Originally posted by adamgouadma
            Do SVOD 4 software supports this.The matter
            MEC1503/1723/1724 - Not supported by SVOD4

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            • adamgouadma
              Badcaps Veteran
              • Jul 2017
              • 260
              • setif

              #7
              Originally posted by Stefan Steff

              MEC1503/1723/1724 - Not supported by SVOD4
              Thank you for your honest reply.

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              • azozexd
                Senior Member
                • Sep 2019
                • 57
                • Maroc

                #8
                The svod can supporte all mec mcu but the devolopper won't update the device id off all mec chips im sure svod 4 can read all chip. like nuvoton npcx997... att first not supported but now it is supported they just add it lik new id chip on data base
                its a caustion of time in next update they will supported all mec chip
                Comme on devolloper update svod 4 i want more mony by unlocking this mcu

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