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- Jan 1, 1970
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I am having a problem lots of people are having with a Tecra 8000 which
somebody just gave me
It has a password they omitted to mention which locks it completely. How do
I get into the BIOS to disable password start or how do I take out the BIOS
save battery to disable this feature? I know I will have to reinstall
everything to the Hard drive if I can't get this problem worked out but
don't care too much as I don't want to access the previous owner's software
anyway. It doesn't SEEM to want to boot from a disc or CD first before
giving this password demand.
I can't boot with my finger on the F1, F2 or ESC keys. If I boot with the
TAB key pressed, I get INSERT EC/KBC BOOT DISKETTE IN DRIVE which
apparently is Toshiba-speak for 'get your finger off the tab key'
WUGNET's Toshiba forum advises to take it to a service centre which WUGNET
naively says will remove the password for a small fee. Not altogether
suprisingly that happens to be slightly more than the computer is worth.
If they can do it, does anyone know how it is actually done?
somebody just gave me
It has a password they omitted to mention which locks it completely. How do
I get into the BIOS to disable password start or how do I take out the BIOS
save battery to disable this feature? I know I will have to reinstall
everything to the Hard drive if I can't get this problem worked out but
don't care too much as I don't want to access the previous owner's software
anyway. It doesn't SEEM to want to boot from a disc or CD first before
giving this password demand.
I can't boot with my finger on the F1, F2 or ESC keys. If I boot with the
TAB key pressed, I get INSERT EC/KBC BOOT DISKETTE IN DRIVE which
apparently is Toshiba-speak for 'get your finger off the tab key'
WUGNET's Toshiba forum advises to take it to a service centre which WUGNET
naively says will remove the password for a small fee. Not altogether
suprisingly that happens to be slightly more than the computer is worth.
If they can do it, does anyone know how it is actually done?