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Satellite Pro A300 Notebook bios password set by system
Ran windows updates all day yesterday with many reboots, shut the notebook down and when I started it up today it asks for a bio password. I did not set one.
OH! I forgot to mention, this has happened on 6 notebooks today, same model.
OH! I forgot to mention, this has happened on 6 notebooks today, same model.
did you ran bios updates ?
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no, no bios updates.... we have 14 of this model, it only happened on 6 of them.
You can try the following methods of removing the password:
grab keydisk from this page http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/CmosPwd
if that does not work you can try to build the toshiba parallel loopback from that same site.
additionally you can try short the bios with this method (at the bottom of the page) http://www.edugeek.net/forums/hardware/29249-toshiba-satellite-pro-bios-pwd.html (this method is confirmed on A200, but not A300 models)
grab keydisk from this page http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/CmosPwd
if that does not work you can try to build the toshiba parallel loopback from that same site.
additionally you can try short the bios with this method (at the bottom of the page) http://www.edugeek.net/forums/hardware/29249-toshiba-satellite-pro-bios-pwd.html (this method is confirmed on A200, but not A300 models)
ASKER
no info on keydisk, does it run from a floppy?
yes
take the battery out of hte laptop, the Small CMOS battery, hopefully easy to get to. Let it sit for a min, then see if its still there.
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battery is not easy to access.... looked at that already.
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