Re: Toshiba & IBM Laptop BIOS Password Recovery

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cmcewen87@xxxxxxxxx typed on Thu, 22 May 2008 08:48:41 -0700 (PDT):
On May 21, 4:00 pm, "BillW50" <Bill...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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cmcewe...@xxxxxxxxx typed on Wed, 21 May 2008 12:47:27 -0700 (PDT):

Hello all,

I am looking for some help in recovering/clearing the BIOS Passwords
on a couple of laptops I have.

Here are the models I have:

Toshiba Satellite 1900
Model Number: PS192C-00824

and

IBM ThinkPad R51
Type: 1836-QNU

I have tried a few things so far which haven't worked, such as the
parallel loopback connector for the Toshiba, and KeyDisk... to no
avail.

If someone could give me some more ideas, or give me definite
instructions on how to make a Toshiba KeyDisk properly, I would be
very grateful.

Thanks,
M

Who are you? And why do you have two laptops with password protected
BIOS? Where is/are the owners of the laptops? You do know this sounds
suspicious right?

Looking back on the original post it kinda does look suspicious.

Here's the background:

I am currently working at my local Children's Services as an IT Summer
Student. Every machine that we give out to the workers is protected by
a generic power on password. The problem lies in the woman who worked
as the network admin before the current admin. She didn't really have
the education for the job and she was always doing shady things, and
she was fired. All of the machines booted fine before, and now she's
changed the passwords and won't tell unless she's paid for the
information. Therein lies my problem. I have 9 Toshibas and 4 IBMs
that won't boot.

I have read up on the security measures in place for the IBM, and have
taken apart one of the Toshibas that had fried to find the CMOS
battery soldered to the board.

As I think I said above, I have tried making a KeyDisk for the
Toshibas, and I don't know if I'm doing it right because my formatted
disk's hex is slightly different than the examples I found. Also, the
parallel loopback connector doesn't seem to work on the model I have
(or I did something wrong)

I have seen diagrams on how to build an EPROM reader for the IBM, and
get the password without desoldering it from the board, and that seems
like the best solution so far for that model, but if there's something
I'm missing, I would appreciate being made aware,

Thanks again,
Chris

Okay for the Toshiba laptops, try:

TOSHIBA

in all caps as the password. I don't know if the 1900 is old enough for that master password to work. Can't help you with the IBM ones though.

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Bill

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