HomeIt’s possible that your Toshiba Satellite A105 laptop can set the BIOS password by itself, without asking you. One day you turn on the laptop and it starts asking for the BIOS password even hough you had never set it up. What’s wrong? How can you fix the problem?
Just for your information, removing the CMOS (RTC) battery will not erase the BIOS password on this model. Don’t even try it, you’ll fail.
Apparently, this laptop sets the password by itself because of some kind of glitch in the earlier BIOS releases. I believe this problem was fixed with the latest BIOS release.
But how can you upgrade the laptop BIOS to the latest version if you cannot bypass the password?
1. If the laptop is still under warranty take it to an authorized repair center. They should clear the BIOS password without any charge.
2. If the laptop is not under warranty, you can try to clear the BIOS password yourself. You’ll find instructions here and here.
After the password has been cleared, upgrade the laptop BIOS to the latest version. You can download it from the Toshiba website.
UPDATE: My Toshiba laptop displays Password= prompt on startup
November 6th, 2008 at 11:19 am
i need help on how to remove setup password from my toshiba satellite a215s5849
June 29th, 2009 at 10:18 am
please HELP me. THANKS.
I have a acer trvelmate 2424wg.
how i clear bios.
I open motherboard laptop and cut the battrey But not clear password bios.
PLEASE HELP me . THANKS
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August 27th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
i have a toshiba m105 i went to the site it said to short cmos clr1 but how do i do that obviously turnt the laptop on but i dont see what points i have to short? is there and where i can see a pic of where i need to short?
October 27th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
I tried this and it wiped my hard drive, all I get is “NTLDR is missing”.
October 27th, 2009 at 8:38 pm
Birt,
You tried what?
Google How to fix NTLDR missing and you’ll find the solution or simply reinstall the operating system from the recovery disc.
February 14th, 2010 at 8:50 pm
worked great. Thanks !!
May 8th, 2010 at 5:08 pm
Worked perfect on Satellite A105-S4004. Thanks a ton!!!
January 28th, 2011 at 7:49 am
Thanks!
I also had a little bit of trouble, It took about 4 tries to get it to work. I too had to scuff up the solder pads, and tried both the paper click and a small flat head screw driver the last try.