Bypass BIOS Password

[tvedigi]

Hi:

How can I Bypass the BIOS Password, on a Toshiba Satellite 3000-X.

Tried a dongle, it did not worked.

:oneeye:

[empo]

clear the CMOS, though you will lose all you bios settings and have to re-enter.

[Mr_Flash]

He cannot clear the CMOS it's a laptop.

Not sure how you can do it if the dongle doesn't work

Toshiba website gives the following info

How do I delete a BIOS Password?

For all Notebook and Desktop Equium range of PCs:

The machine has to be returned to a Toshiba Authorised Reseller or Toshiba Authorised Service Provider who will remove the password as a chargeable service.

[empo]

oops.....didn't realise it was a notebook :cheese:

[megazoid]

Have A Look on this site, It may help

http://www.labmice.net/articles/BIOS_hack.htm

Regards

Megazoid

[b0b0]

If there is a floppy drive on this laptop, try that, it worked for me on a old satellite ...


http://b0.b0.free.fr/download/toshiba/toshiba.exe

DO NOT BE SCARED, THIS FILE IS CLEAN, AND IT'S AN AUTO EXCTRACTIBLE FLOPPY ....

That's a floppy with 2 byte changed on the boot sector ...

This floppy has to be in the drive when turning on the laptop ! =)

Tell me if it worked for you ...



Sorry ... If this doesn't work :

Bypass the Toshiba Power On BIOS password

This method works on almost all models. You need an empty formatted diskette, A second computer and a hex-editor:

Start the second PC and start the hex-editor;

Put the disk in drive A:

Change the first five bytes of sector 2 (boot sector is sector 1) to: 4B 45 59 00 00 <- That can be done with Hex WorkShop !

Save it! Now you have a KEYDISK

Remove the disk from drive A:

Put the disk in the Toshiba A:drive;

Start the notebook in Boot Mode (push the reset button)

Press Enter when asked for Password;

You will be asked to Set Password again. Press Y and Enter.

You now see the BIOS configuration where you can set a new password.