Toshiba Satellite Pro A300 BIOS Passwork Removal

[mac_shinobi]

How bizarre - this has just happened to us with 3 A300's that had not even been unboxed - after a lot of prompting from our supplier (big thanks to Roland at Kelway), Toshiba finally told us what to do - though flatly refused to admit there was a problem, even though there are loads of similar stories on the net. Fix pm'd!

Is it possible to post said fix onto this post / thread??

[OLOPADE]

Toshiba Satellite Pro A300 BIOS Passwork Removal

[bigaandy]

How bizarre - this has just happened to us with 3 A300's that had not even been unboxed - after a lot of prompting from our supplier (big thanks to Roland at Kelway), Toshiba finally told us what to do - though flatly refused to admit there was a problem, even though there are loads of similar stories on the net. Fix pm'd!

ANy chance spuffmonkey could PM me the information, have removed soldered battery but to no avail

Regards
Andy
IT Assist & AMS systems

[plexer]

ANy chance spuffmonkey could PM me the information, have removed soldered battery but to no avail

Regards
Andy
IT Assist & AMS systems

As the password is stored in an eeprom chip removing the battery won't help as you've found out.

Ben

[bigaandy]

As the password is stored in an eeprom chip removing the battery won't help as you've found out.

Ben

Exactly what a waste of my time, the last one I did was the L300, and it worked with the removal of the battery for 3 days go figure, and that one had a standard battery so did not have to de-solder then re-solder it

Ben you have any further info on to how to get around this

regards
Andy
It Assist & AMS Systems

[hardtailstar]

Thread revival....

Ive tried everything suggested.... Ive taken the laptop apart completely and removed all kinds of things as suggested butnot luck at all.

any ideas?

[SpuffMonkey]

This is what we did

Please see below the bios password removal method for the Satellite Pro A300 (PSJ1E) series.

Satellite Pro A300 (PSAJ1E-)
Remove battery and disconnect the AC-adapter then short pad G1 for a minimum of 30 seconds with a flat-blade screwdriver, the pad is located under the memory module.
This can be accessed from the base of the notebook