Hi,

Ok a friend of mine rang me TODAY regarding her Equium A60, her ex boyfriend has put a password on the BIOS and I cannot work out how to remove it, she has asked him what it is, he claims he was drunk and don't know what it is. She has been quoted £150 by pc world which is extortion.

I have had it in bits but can't seem to find the battery, the WAYS of clearing BIOS listed on toshiba's site do not work, the thing is it is not exactly looked after so wouldn't be worth spending £150 on it, but her college work is on it, which is her only concern.

Anyone KNOWS of a way, besides shorting the chip LOL. I will be honest I am not used to laptops, obviously I said yes presuming they would have a removable battery like a normal pc. I seem to be hitting brick walls with it.Removing the CMOS  battery won't fix it.

The below site is possible.

http://www.pwcrack.com/bios.shtml

If the files or work is worth $10.00 try the below adaptor to
recover the files to a desktop.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16812203012Laptops are meant to be more secure than desktops and some models can only be fixed by replacing the motherboard! You cannot easily overcome the BIOS password, and on some models not at all.

If she is the owner, she should first contact Toshiba. Next she should ditch the drunk.  She should ditch the drunk but wont, i have removed the battery from the motherboard, so hopefully when i re assemble it tomoz all will be fine, i do not know why on this model they only made the bios accessible from within windows, and as for more secure, he MANAGED to do this from a guest account, pretty lame really.So is this really a BIOS password or a Windows password?A bios password, for some reason toshiba made this laptop where the bios can only be accessed from within windows, i removed the battery from the motherboard overnight switched it on this morning it asked for the time and date, and said press f1 to enter set up or f2 to load defaults, i pressed f1 and it came up with the *censored* password screen again, i feel this may be a new mother board, i will remove the battery once again and try loading default, but i some how doubt it is going to make any difference.