Bios Password Toshiba

I have a friend with Toshiba Notebook.
His wife messed around with the notebook, and tried to get around his windows password. Some how she got into the bios, because she saw F2 for setup. She then somehow put in a password for the BIOS. She thought is was her name, but that does not work. It will not boot with a dos system disc.

The machine will not boot. It will not get pass the enter BIOS password screen. Three tries and your out.

It is a Phoenix bois and I have tried all the backdoor words.

Any other suggestions.

Thanks
Qconfused

 

If it's an older Toshiba, you can build a device from an old parallel printer cable. You connect certain pins to certain other pins (like connect 1 to 13, connect 2 to 7 and 10, etc...), plug it into the parallel port and boot up and it will allow you to get into the BIOS and reset the password. From what I remember, when you're in the BIOS, you have to set another password (make it simple like 1234) and the device lets you do this w/o asking for the current unknown password. You then save the changes to BIOS, shut down, remove the parallel cable thingy, reboot, enter the BIOS again, and remove the password you just created (like 1234). The parallel device has a catchy name like a 'boot blocker' or maybe 'BIOS booter' or something. They sell 'em pre-made on EBay but they only work on fairly old Toshiba's. I've only done this once about 4 or 5 years ago; it worked great when this guy's 5 year old go into the BIOS and BS'd his way into setting a password. We were all pretty stoked when this bootlegged printer cable let us reset the password!!! Anyway, I'm rambling... if it's an older Toshiba, look into it on Google or something. You can also get USB devices that do the same thing for newer Toshiba laptops, but they're not cheap; over $100 .... Just Google 'remove Toshiba password' or maybe 'reset {model number of laptop} password' or something. I dunno.... usually, these power on passwords cannot be removed by taking out the CMOS battery, so unless she remembers, or you pay a service or buy a device, you're probably SOL (shi* outta luck).

hopperdave2000

 

I am a service, but I have no tools for removing a BIOS password in this Toshiba. None of my quick trick tools work. It is a new Notebook, less than one year.

 

You could just remove the CMOS battery for like 10 minutes. That'll get rid of it.