Laptop bios password help

[CrazyCompGeek]

My friend has a laptop Toshiba 1805-S273. He forgot the bios password and he couldn't turn on the laptop. Do you know anyway to bypass the password.
Thank you

 

[paperfist]

Might be a pain, but have you tried pulling the CMOS battery?

There is also a program on the Internet you can install on a floppy that will reset BIOS passwords. I'll try to find the bookmark I had for it, but they are a bit helter skelter atm so you may want to search on google for it.

 

[bacillus]

call me a sceptic but how could he forget the bios password if you need to enter it at every bootup?

 

[Gunbuster]

Call Toshiba
Most of the time the "friend" is the poster and the laptop is stolen

 

[corkyg]

Originally posted by: Gunbuster
Call Toshiba Most of the time the "friend" is the poster and the laptop is stolen

Correct! Laptop passwords cannot be bypassed. This is deliberate to reduce the impact of theft - many are stolen. In most cases it must be returned to the maker - and it is expensive. But - as has been pointed out, how can one forget something one uses all the time? My personal policy is never to install a BIOS password on any computer.

 

[micradigitalis]

I had this problem with a HP laptop...I called HP and verified that I was the owner and they took a few serial numbers and were able to give me a BIOS master password.

 

[vshah]

not necessarily stolen.....i have an old laptop that i put a password on a few summers ago...some spur of the moment thing, and now its totally useless...
-vivan

 

[dkozloski]

I suggested once before that as a group we ought to stop being accessories to theft and require people with laptop BIOS password problems to prove ownership and go to the manufacturer. The odds are overwhelmingly against the request for help being honestly legitimate. I got jumped on last time for being narrow-minded so have at it again.