Rock on, I'll give it a shot. Thanks!
From personal experience, these kinds of things are usually based on "security by obscurity" and is just a matter of pushing the right buttons in a specific order.
Unless hardware fuses are physically blown, there is usually a chance. While possible, I don't think any laptop manufacturer would implement that functionality without an expensive, special order contract.
Lol. I would suspect that being Peter Capaldi might be more fun than being me, in some specific situations.