Laptop Bios Password

[Belso]

Well basically i got hammered last night, and the landlord of the pub asked me if i could fix his laptop.

I said yeah sure, as it sounded like he had just forgot his Windows password.

Had a look this morning and it seems he has forgot his bios password.

The laptop is a Toshiba, and Windows 98 and a piece of Sh!t tbh.

Anyway i have found a few things to try for later:

But this one sounds like very good, http://home.earthlink.net/~porsche91...x/keydisk.html

But the problem i have is i dont understand how to do it even though there is a guide.

So could someone please dumb it down for me?

[Barley]

Eeek, messing around with hex editors is an annoying business, I think I tried it once.

It basically wants you to change the information held on the boot sector of the floppy disk.

[Belso]

I think it wants me to:

Download keydisk and run it (This brings up the Command Prompt with disapears straight away)

Then run the Hex Editor thing. But this loads up a box and i get confused :

[Barley]

I always get confused with Hex editors too :?

[Belso]

I have done this: loaded up the Keydisk in the hex editor and edited the 2nd line like the guide says.

Now im confused.

Do i just whack the .exe file on a floppy?

When i run the .exe i get an illegal error now.

Help

[Aaron]

I'd try putting the exe on the floppy disk and just booting from the disk and see what happens...

If that doesnt work, maybe make a bootable disk, and bung the file on there as well and try running it from within dos?

[Belso]

I cant boot from the floppy though mate, as i cant get passed the bios password.

[Aaron]

oh ok - so the floppy drive isnt the first device that its set to boot from and you need to get to the bios to change that? or it just wont do anything without the bios password?

What happens if you just have the file on the disk with it in the drive, and start the computer up?

I'll have a dig and see if I can find anything else..

[Belso]

Basically the first screen which appears asks you for the bios password.

No way of getting passed it.

I've found 2 things a parallel port thing which you can get off ebay for £8 or this way but i dont see how this works.

The laptop is at home so i cant try anything yet, but hoping to get it done when i get home so im open to all ideas

[Aaron]

id just found the parallel port thing too.. you could do the same thing with some bits of wire or a few paper clips, instead of buying one!

[Belso]

explain?

[Aaron]

well, its just a case of shorting out certain pins - thats all the loopback plug does.. lemme see if I can find a pinout for it..

[Aaron]

ok, so basically, all you need to do is to connect pins:

1+5+10
2+11
3+17
4+12
6+16
7+13
8+14
9+15


And theres your Parallel port pinout diagram..

The tricky one will be connecting pins 1+5+10, but it shouldnt be too hard.

You can tell if its working as the laptop wont ask for passwords any more, but it still might not do anything. If thats the case, hold escape (I think), and it will take you into the bios where you can clear the password..

[Aaron]

triple post points score for me, I think!

if you happen to have an old parallel cable laying around, you could do it this way..

http://www.laptoprepairguy.com/lapto...a-laptop-bios/

[Belso]

Thanks Aaron!! :wink:

Just one question: What do i use to connect the pins? 8)