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Hello! I bought about 30 Toshiba Tecra M2s from a recycler, and while they are nice little machines, a few of them have BIOS passwords in place that prevent them from booting at all. They simply ask for a password when you power them on. BIOS password removal tools do not work because the password prompt appears before the machine even attempts to boot from CD, etc. I’ve tried removing the battery for 5 minutes, and several other forms of magic suggested by random pages when I Googled the issue. Nothing worked. Unfortunately I’m not very experienced with Toshibas and am therefore pretty clueless about this. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks!
Hi, I don’t know if you’ve seen this link but it looks like it may help you. Also it seems if you take them to a retailer with proof of purchase they will reset them for you. Good luck Ralph http://jevarax.wordpress.com/2008/08/08/…
There are 4 methods of removing BIOS password: Remove BatteryChange Jumper SettingsBIOS Password Recovery SoftwareBIOS Backdoor Password This article has described the methods above: http://www.top-password.com/knowledge/re…
Short circuit the system clock battery (preferably an old battery, not a fresh Lithium Battery to be shortcircuited ) fitted in the motherboard and then reboot your machin
I also try to find some other solutions because I also lost my BIOS password, and I think this article about how to reset or remove BIOS password will be of great help: http://www.recoverlostpassword.com/artic…
Try removing the CMOS/BIOS battery or see if there is a jumper on your motherboard that will reset the password.
remove the jumper on the board
As far as I know about BIOS, there is 2 forms of BIOS passwords. The forms are desktop and laptop/notebook. Desktop BIOS passwords are easy to bypass by moving the jumpers. Laptop BIOS passwords are way more difficult to bypass as they are stored on the EEPROM chip which is soldered to the motherboard. If you don’t know the BIOS password, you need to either talk to the guy who previously owned them or put new motherboards in them to get past the BIOS password.
