Toshiba Equium looking for password on boot

[kerrywez]

Well lads, I phoned Toshiba just now and they say there is no known fault with any of their products. They want me to send them the laptop and for £76 they will give me a quote, some deal that is, he said that the cost of any repair after that would be extra. I read him out the bit about them knowing there was a fault with the bios, but he said there is nothing wrong with any Toshiba product. They are a shower of bar-stewards by the reception I got from them. I just hung up on the fecker. I am now searching on that link that you sent me abbs2002, for the way to get the bios battery out. I am, however going to try the other suggestions before I go that far.

Thanks again lads for all your help, I will keep you informed.

Regards Wez

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Keydisk
1.Try typing in 'Toshiba' as the password (known backdoor password)
2.Try a blank password
3.interogate your son for the word he typed in

4. use the keydisk.exe found Here

To use keydisk you will have to create a bootable CD using something like Nero and add the keydisk software on there. This is providing that you can actually boot from CD. Once booted you can execute keydisk by typing it in at the command prompt.

Other than that i would try removing the battery again for a good 15 minutes.

Best i could come up with.

Kevin

[kerrywez]

Further update lads. I tried Toshiba for the password. but that did not work. also tried a blank but not good either. I then tried holding the f1 key whilst booting, but that did not work either. I then hit Crtl+Alt+Del to reboot, hay presto that worker and she booted into XP when I held the f1 key. I was then asked to register the copy of XP, which I could ot do, so I was forced to reboot, back to the password thingy again. I then put a copy of XP in the drive and did the Ctrl+Alt+Del reboot and it is now installing XP as I write.

I shall keep you informed as to what happens when I get it installed.

Thanks for all you help boys, keep up the good work.

Regards Wez

[javed]

Hi,
i think your laptop hard drive is encrypted and password protected as many companies do now a days.
I work for an IT company and we do the same.
The password is setup on boot and after POST it will ask you the password. it is not a bios password and it will not even let you in the bios.

Can i ask if this is your own laptop ?
Thanks

[kerrywez]

Not likely, I installed the disk myself and I have owned the lappy for over two years now. It is only a spare lappy, I have an Acer Aspire 5738Z, which I am on now.

Any of you guys know if I were to install a Linux OS would I get away with that. The funny thing is that when I did the reinstall of XP, the machine rebooted, as it does during install and it worked just fine. It also rebooted on a restart command from me, but once I shut it down the password request came back up again, even with just a restart, but I can still get past it with the Ctrl+Alt+Del and holding the f1 key on bootup. I have a feeling that there might be something wrong with the copy of XP I am using, my mate is looking for the Toshiba recovery dish which I think I gave him, by mistake, for one of his daughters one, when I was sorting out her lappy, if I had it I would have a better idea of what is happening. I did not try taking the bios battery out, because I did not find anything regarding an Equium in that link. I also just got my new phone and have been having a play with it as well as trying to keep up with mails and things in the satellite section on here.

Thanks to everyone here who has helped, I will keep you informed as to what happens, would like to get it sorted, even if it is only yo use as a Linux machine.

Regards Wez

[abbs2002]

Originally Posted by kerrywez

Not likely, I installed the disk myself and I have owned the lappy for over two years now. It is only a spare lappy, I have an Acer Aspire 5738Z, which I am on now.

Any of you guys know if I were to install a Linux OS would I get away with that. The funny thing is that when I did the reinstall of XP, the machine rebooted, as it does during install and it worked just fine. It also rebooted on a restart command from me, but once I shut it down the password request came back up again, even with just a restart, but I can still get past it with the Ctrl+Alt+Del and holding the f1 key on bootup. I have a feeling that there might be something wrong with the copy of XP I am using, my mate is looking for the Toshiba recovery dish which I think I gave him, by mistake, for one of his daughters one, when I was sorting out her lappy, if I had it I would have a better idea of what is happening. I did not try taking the bios battery out, because I did not find anything regarding an Equium in that link. I also just got my new phone and have been having a play with it as well as trying to keep up with mails and things in the satellite section on here.

Thanks to everyone here who has helped, I will keep you informed as to what happens, would like to get it sorted, even if it is only yo use as a Linux machine.

Regards Wez

No password will work for you according to the other posts on the net coz you’ve never set a password in the first place, the only way to get rid of that problem is by downloading BIOS update for your model from Toshiba website to over rite the faulty Bios software you have m8, that’s how others got rid of that problem.