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by darrell_fry

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I purchased a Toshiba Laptop from the Military DRMO sale and it has a Boot-up Password, does any one have an idea how I can get past this thing or find a backdoor pw?.

Satellite.

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by kewh

If your comfident enough you can open the laptop up and disconnect the small cable that goes to the cmos/bios battery, you do have to take it to pieces quite deeply to reach the little cable or battery. i had to do this once for my Toshiba Sattelitepro 4700 and it cleared the settings to the default factory settings. My laptop was blank Ie. no OS, so im not sure if it would affect the OS if it is installed. Hope this helps.

by sfhsgrad00

You can look online for a BIOS/ CMOS eraser, this will reset their settings back to default. Then you can boot the system up and change those settings as you so desire.

by darrell_fry

it does not even get close to the cmos/bios all I have to do is turn it on, You dont see anything.

by kewh

This is an issue with the BIOS it is built in and you look at the toshiba site they tell you that if you forget your password to go to a specialist to get the BIOS password removed. but the answer i provided does work if you wish to try it.

by pinoy_teknik

Well at the web search engine type Universal BIOS Password...it will give you some useful articles that may help you...Universal BIOS Password is the password that give by the bios manufacturer.

If you can open that laptop, try to find the jumpersettings of the cmos battery, if you can find it, remove the battery and for 10 seconds for sure then back it again, (be carefule)

You're done!!!
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hope this can help

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