Hi all!

I have a Lenovo P17 Gen2
Type 20YU-003HUS
Serial # PF3S0LF3

Boot / Setup password was changed and fat-fingered, so now I can't get into the machine.

I have an SVOD4 programmer and Software version 0.0.5.9 date 17.03.2025. I managed to read my BIOS, dump it to a file twice and verify, then edit per instructions demonstrated on YT: ([url]https://youtu.be/pEy-XZLU5bA?si=B4sZ6d0MSqqLHNvK[/url]).

HOWEVER, when I write the edited file and try to boot, I get the POST errors:

0271: Check Date and Time settings. (Yeah,...

I've been in the IT industry in some capacity or another since 1985. A few years earlier, if you count the time I spent during my highschool years working for a pharmacist who was told he needed to modernize his paper-based practice. He was younger than I am now when I watched his face fall as he eyed the AS/400 that was delivered and set up in his back office. "I'm too old for this sh... Do you want a raise?"

From my UNIX-baptism, to my first IBM 8086-XT running DOS 3.x with an acoustic modem, to working for Evans & Sutherland around the time they boasted graphics...