Toshiba laptop password

[MagicFingers]

A friend has a Toshiba notebook that has Win.XP
It has a bios password that the user forgot, or put in accidently.
Can you go to the bios and change that option, or do you need the password to do that?
If you remove the CMOS battery, would that delete it?
If so, would it delete ALL the bios settings too?

And would the defaults get reloaded automatically from the chip?

Thanks for any guidance in this problem.

 

[dlj403]

The manual (dead tree or online PDF) should have instructions on how to do this. With most laptops, there's either a jumper that's easily accessable (usually inside a small compartment on the underside) or you turn the machine on while holding down a particular key-sequence to blow away the bios settings. Things will go back to default -- often times you'll need to enter CMOS Setup once to force the HDD auto-detect and to reset the clock.

Because these settings differ from laptop to laptop, I'd suggest going to the Toshiba website and look up for the specific model you have.

 

[ReadyOne]

Toshiba passwords are hard to reset. THe older ones require a specially wired plug for the printer port; the new ones need device that plugs into the USB port.

Contact Toshiba technical support about your model; maybe it doesn't need anything exotic.

Check out http://www.cgsecurity.org/ and look for CmosPwd

 

[MagicFingers]

Thanks for the help

There's a lot to learn about laptops that I don't know.
Both of you helped.
Thanks.