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    Bios password at laptop start up...

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by Albert30, Mar 5, 2015.

  1. Albert30

    Albert30 Newbie

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    Hi all.

    In short, my wife has left the laptop at the kids reach. According to her, when she had seen them messing about with it, they were at a blue sort of screen. I thought they must have been in the BIOS.

    Boy was I right. Switched the laptop on and what do you know, its password protected. It won't even go to the boot stage.

    I have seen in Google many mentions of jumper B500 but I can't find these on this laptop. Not unless they're hiding quite well.

    Unlike all PC motherboards, that have a lovely jumper that allows us to kill/reset BIOS, I can't find one in this laptop.

    It seems laptops don't even have jumper pins but rather solder points that act just like it.

    At least under the only removable lid, there's memory, HDD and CMOS battery.

    I have had the battery, HDD, RAM and laptop battery removed and left it alone for a week. This resulted in nothing.

    Does this laptop has a clear CMOS jumper at all? Anyone know what's it called?

    Laptop model is Satellite L850D-12P.

    Many thanks.

    Albert
     
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    katalin_2003 NBR Spectre Super Moderator

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