![]() One of the following processes is running:ģ. LoJack), so I got rid of it in no time.īut herewith you are WARNED TO NOT EVER put in a HD/SSD from a Computrace-activated laptop in any other machine!Ĭode: Select all Indicators of Computrace Agent Activityġ. Luckily I know how to kill Computrace (a.k.a. When I installed this T400 HD as a test-HD in my new T601 Frankie, it created havoc in the T601 innards and put in an activated Computrace in the BIOS! WTF? These files make a call to at every fresh computer start. Upon checking that T400, I found that Computrace was ENabled, but NOT activated.Īpparently that is enough to install the rpcnet*.* files in Windows or Linux! That T400 has Anti-Theft settings in BIOS, including Computrace (not available in T61). The HD I used for testing this Frankie came from a T400 I have. In the T61 BIOS there are no settings for Computrace, so what had happened?Īfter a lot of investigation I found this: If above picture/link fails, see instead. To make sure, I had removed the HD, battery and AC were in, just wanted to check the BIOS settings before shipping.Īll alarm bells went ringing when I went into the BIOS and saw this Computrace warning: Then today (Monday morning) I was ready to pack up this T601FL and ship it out to its new owner. On Friday last week I finished my testing, which was still all OK as far as I knew. However, I hadn't gone into the BIOS again, since I had no need for checking/changing anything there, yet. When I put in Middleton's BIOS I had no problems either.Įverything was hunky-dory, UNTIL I put in one of my test-HDs with W7-Pro.Ĭhecking the functionality of the new Frankie went without a hitch and I had a test-run of almost 24 hours.Ĭhecked it again the next day to start charging the battery, still no problem. ![]() When I used the HDM to put in TYPE, S/N and UUID I had no problems either. I just put a new T61 mobo from TuuS in a T60 chassis, to create my Frankie #74 (I kid you not!).ĭuring installation last week of this new mobo with nVidia NVS140M chip from 2010 I had no problems. Today I was absolutely stumped by seeing a warning in a T61 BIOS that Computrace was active!
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