Portege R700 - BIOS Access Issues

I have encountered the fault that crops up on addition of an admin password for the BIOS on my R700. i added the password directly in the BIOS itself as i have re-installed windows onto an SSD and as such dont have any of the bloatware from toshiba installed.

now when i try to access the BIOS on bootup by pressing the Esc key i get a black screen and white message saying press F2 to enter setup. i press F2 and the system reboots and loads to windows, or if i press Esc again same message. it will loop like this forever with no BIOS access. pressing F1 does nothing as does Esc at the press F2 request.

so essentially i'm completely locked out of my own BIOS. i have tried putting the old HDD back in with the toshiba security manager in it but it doesnt find any BIOS password so i cant delete it using that

my next plan was to simply dismantle the computer and remove the CMOS battery and allow the BIOS to reset to defaults......however i know this only works on certain computers not all, so my question is, is this worth a shot??? or if not what can i do to get back into my BIOS??

thanks

Ben

 

for info the solution was to press the 'INS' key repeatedly on system start up when the red toshiba logo was displayed and after a few attempts it let me, prompting for the password

 

Thanks for that info. It's not something I would have tried.

John