the only switch i can see is the touch wifi button and thats the only one that does blink when i touch it. The speakers and other media buttons blink. I could try and check the wiring on the wifi button. I took a quick look at the bios flasher from hp under immunity debugger to see how/where it verified the pass. It would be nice if i could just forcefully overwrite the bios with rouge data and without verifying the pass. Ive got a little bit of assembly knowledge but Im ready to conquer this laptop. If I break it ill just salvage the workable parts Had tried cmospwd, didnt seem like it worked just gave me some random unicode dump. I will post the data output later tonight