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‎05-04-2020 06:27 AM

HP Recommended
Product: Z240 Tower Workstation
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

Hello,

 

i bought one refurbised HP Workstation Z240 with locked BIOS system.

We can't boot or installed another system.

Can you please help us to unlock the BIOS.

 

Best Regards,

Comstrok

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‎05-04-2020 08:57 AM - edited ‎05-04-2020 08:58 AM

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Ever wonder why HP still puts PS/2 mouse and keyboard ports on their high end workstations?  HP sells a lot of computers to "three letter" government agencies that put thick epoxy  into all the USB ports to keep thumb drives from walking away with data.  I'm not sure if you can ever unlock some hard drives but you can unlock your locked workstation.

 

To do this you need to get into the workstation's motherboard area, and there is a jumper to temporarily move in the process.  I'm sure the government agencies have physical locks installed to prevent access inside... this is not a secret.  Go to your technical/service manual  HERE .

http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c04897695

 

See p. 38 and p. 82.

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‎05-05-2020 12:57 AM

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Thank you for reply.

I already try this but without success because stringer security mode is on. I think that I need master key or something like that??

 

Best regards

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