Re: Tecra M5 boot password ? ASP ask me 150€

Old Toshiba laptops used either a parallel port dongle or a special boot floppy to remove the password. Since Parallel ports and floppy disks are long gone, however, ...... (although it might be worth trying the boot floppy with a USB floppy drive).

Toshiba now uses about a dozen different ways to kill the boot password. None of them are as simple as a master password or removing a battery (even an internal battery). On MOST models (not all), there is a jumper point that can be shorted to kill the password, but it's location varies all over the place from model to model. All I can suggest is an exhaustive web search. It goes without saying that this information was not intended to be made public.


schog wrote:
Hi everybody !

I don't konw if this is the good NG to ask your help ? (i hope so)


I've bought a second hand Toshiba tecra M5 (it was sold as out of order)
I send it to Toshiba ASP to repair it but know Toshiba ask me 150€ ($250US) to remove the boot password.
I don't find any solution on the internet cause it's the new anti-thief protection system.
No response from the previous owner
And I don't want to paid 150€ more...


Here is the test I 've already tried :

- backdoor password
- no DB25 so no loopback dongle solution
- unplug internal keyboard after booting and plug an USB ext. keyboard (as the solution for the dell)
- basic password (toshiba, 1234, 0000....)

Remove cmos battery has no effect with this new protection (no jumper to)
Password come before booting (so unable to boot from another external device like floppy to try a keydisk)

What a pity...

If anyone has an idea ?
Thks !
G.
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