Question about Toshiba Satellite R15 Tablet PC
Ok you are kind of in trouble that password can NOT be reset...so try the passwords that were recommeded above and then try and think if you have any passwords any where else on your computer and try those if not you will have to take it somewhere to have it completely reset and lose all your data....good luck!
Posted on Aug 07, 2007
This works theres a tool you can that will plug into the printer port look it up in google i sorry i dont remember where i got it from on the enternet i will try to locate it i also think you can buy it on ebay it works great sedonabob
Posted on Jan 16, 2008
dear lolabye heres where to find it on ebay this tool works perfect
Item number: 260203888021 hope this helps
sedonabob
If it's an older Toshiba, you can build a device from an old parallel printer cable. You connect certain pins to certain other pins (like connect 1 to 13, connect 2 to 7 and 10, etc...), plug it into the parallel port and boot up and it will allow you to get into the BIOS and reset the password. From what I remember, when you're in the BIOS, you have to set another password (make it simple like 1234) and the device lets you do this w/o asking for the current unknown password. You then save the changes to BIOS, shut down, remove the parallel cable thingy, reboot, enter the BIOS again, and remove the password you just created (like 1234). The parallel device has a catchy name like a 'boot blocker' or maybe 'BIOS booter' or something. They sell 'em pre-made on EBay but they only work on fairly old Toshiba's. I've only done this once about 4 or 5 years ago; it worked great when this guy's 5 year old go into the BIOS and BS'd his way into setting a password. We were all pretty stoked when this bootlegged printer cable let us reset the password!!! Anyway, I'm rambling... if it's an older Toshiba, look into it on Google or something. You can also get USB devices that do the same thing for newer Toshiba laptops, but they're not cheap; over $100 .... Just Google 'remove Toshiba password' or maybe 'reset {model number of laptop} password' or something. I dunno.... usually, these power on passwords cannot be removed by taking out the CMOS battery, so unless she remembers, or you pay a service or buy a device, you're probably out of luck
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Here is some stuff I found on the net: Some Toshiba laptop systems will bypass the BIOS password if the left shift key is held down during boot. Try using Toshiba or toshiba as the cmos password. (cmos passwords can be case sensitive) and this: ToneToshiba Notebook BIOS password backdoor 1 Here's some other helpful links: http://www.tech-faq.com/reset-bios-password.shtml http://www.freelabs.com/~whitis/security/backdoor.html http://www.pwcrack.com/bios.shtml Good luck!
Posted on Jul 02, 2007
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BiOS password lockout....forgot password......now the screen shows :
Password =
taking out the RTC for a weeks without the battery, reset the cmos, and downgrading and upgrading bios version did not work.
help
Thanks,
Rick
I have the same problem of password can anybody help please ? thanks in advance
me too, just a black screen with a blue box asking for a password I know for 100% absolutely totally no-mistaking sure that I have never ever set... this is just Toshiba being a total money-grabbing swindling cheating good-for-nothing bunch of tossers... oh, and it happens almost exactly 2 years after I bought the infernal machine.. this is the second Toshiba Satellite I've had and theprevious machine failed after 2 years as well... bunch of c**ts! I am never buying another of their useless machines ever again.. there, I feel better now, thanks for reading my rant!
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