Hi Everyone,

I have Toshiba Satellite 1800 Laptop. The Laptop has a BIOS password that I didn't know. when my company bought it for me it was set by a password. No one knows what the password is. Could you please Help me on this. I've tried a lot including resetin by using the parellel port. Please Help me.

ScottGem

Need,
Makes you kind of wonder doesn't it? How someone who claims to be:

A+ and Net+ certified by CompTia. Many years experience with installing/uninstalling operating systems, hard drives, RAM, etc.

cannot know the basic fact that a CMOS/BIOS or poweron password is check during the POST which occurs before the boot process. Also shows how stubborn they are about admitting they goofed.

ice-x

If even the parallel device won't work, check this out:
https://www.regnow.com/softsell/nph-...items=1824-296

Deggles

I have the same problem guys, so please be good enough to share the success story! Thanks.

LTheobald

Deggles, if you didn't see it read this bit:


If you have something other than a Toshiba, just go through the post from the start again - there's several links on how to reset the BIOS password (normally removing the motherboards battery).

Deggles

hmmmm.... not sure about that. Where there's a will there's a way. If Tosh can do it then it's possible. It may be that I have to read the bios password chip, and reset a certain hex address. I had to do that with an IBM once.

As I say, where there's a will there's a way!

Cheers anyway.

cbee55

On the Satellite 1xxx range, you need to short out a couple of pad contacts usually under the memory expansion bay. Unfortunately I can't find which ones you need to short out on the Tosh Sat1800, as it's the only one that's not listed.

On older Tosh's you would use the parallel loopback to reset the password, as it is stored on an EPROM I believe, not stored on a CMOS/Battery Backed chip. On some newer Tosh laptops a dealer needs to send a form to Toshiba to get password unlocked.