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    Owners of VGN-SZ1XP notebook please help

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by elvair, May 25, 2009.

  1. elvair

    elvair Notebook Enthusiast

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    I would greatly appreciate if those who own the above notebook would help me. I have same machine and the following problem. I encrypted certain folders on my harddrive with TPM, entered my password incorrectly certain amounts of times which disabled TPM function and blocked the following folders. The only way to access it now is to get into BIOS and reset TPM, then initialise it from Windows again. Which would be no problem if my LCD screen was not broken. Meaning that I can login into Windows ok and work in windows environment with external monitor. However I cannot access my bios, because it would only be possible with the own notebook screen which is broken. Hence here is the question - could somebody provide me with the exact sequence of keys which you need to press once in BIOS which would reset TPM ? I'm not too concerned with different versions of BIOS, I would assume that on that particular machine they would be more or less identical. So I would need something like : LEFT, LEFT, RIGHT, ENTER, DOWN, DOWN, ENTER , F3 etc ...

    Will be greatly appreciated .....

    Many thanks !
     
  2. adsami22

    adsami22 Newbie

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    Here you go:
    After you enter BIOS:

    RIGHT
    RIGHT
    RIGHT (you get to TPM tab)
    ENTER (brings up the menu items)
    DOWN
    DOWN
    DOWN (Clear)
    ENTER (Select Clear)
    F10 (Save BIOS)
    ENTER(Save and reboot)

    Hopefully your problem gets resolved.