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TEEPEE
06-08-2006, 08:11 PM
i have just bought a motherboard for a toshiba satelite pro a40 series and it has a power on password that i can not for the life of me get rid of. it wont work with a usb boot disk or a dongle. any one on here can get it off for me or tell me how.????

bloke
07-08-2006, 05:36 PM
Disconnect from mains and take the button battery out for a few days. Also read the manual to see if there's a master reset jumper

TEEPEE
07-08-2006, 05:52 PM
That does not work on these models mate but thanks for info. they are very hard to do as the password is not in the part of cmos that can be reset. it has its own chip for the pass. but thannks any way. :)

DessertDog
07-08-2006, 05:56 PM
why not ask the person who you bought it from ?

TEEPEE
07-08-2006, 06:26 PM
Cos he ripped me i think. i bought it from ebay and when it did not work i asked him for the pass. he said that he took it out of a machine he bought for the screen and did not know it had one in it. he wont give me my money back either. thats ebay for you though. never mind..

thebighippo
07-08-2006, 06:32 PM
Have you tried with a parallel port dongle?

Connect these pins on a DB25 plug to make the dongle:

1-5-10
2-11
3-17
4-12
6-16
7-13
8-14
9-15

theBigHippo

TEEPEE
07-08-2006, 07:00 PM
yep tried that one mate. and ive made a bootable 256meg usb stick as well as was told that bios cant overide the usb at boot. that is the latest thing but does not work. thanks for the info...

Declan
07-08-2006, 10:17 PM
2 things you can do,


retract your payment and rip the guy who ripped you off
or just keep trying, i dont know that much about computers so i am not even gonna suggest ways around it

IAmATeaf
09-08-2006, 03:31 PM
You could try Toshiba themselves to see what they say?

y2krog2000
13-08-2006, 08:03 AM
Take out the hard drive and plug it into another computer as a secondry hard drive then just do a full re-format. you probably could even plug it into an external enclosure if you have one to do it.

nightdevil
24-08-2006, 06:11 PM
I dont know about the toshiba laptops but certain dell models can be by-passed by bridging the chip concerned with a paperclip or similar object, this is a complete strip-down job and you need to know the exact chip and what pins to bridge, but with the dells it does work, I have myself sorted out two laptops with that problem

akthar
25-08-2006, 08:21 AM
The dongle is the correct answer. What you have to do is follow a certain procedure with the dongle plugged in. It's been years since I've had to work on one so I am very rusty. Try the following.

Plug in a loopback dongle.

Take the battery out and then power up with just the mains on.

Leave the laptop on for around 5-6 hours (sometimes can take 24!!!)

Then take the power lead out and then power back on with the battery in it.

Hopefully, that should fix it.

gwapo
25-08-2006, 11:18 AM
Take out the hard drive and plug it into another computer as a secondry hard drive then just do a full re-format. you probably could even plug it into an external enclosure if you have one to do it.

Sorry mate but that will not help. It's the BIOS password he's trying to solve and not any boot password or O.S. password.