The ubiquitous Bios password bug

TOSHIBA: Stop making several models of defective laptop computer that randomly set a bios password on you. Of course, they offer to pay for a shop to do it, but we don't have time for that. Reviews of this question going back to nearly a decade. That being said, as a result of the business.

I don't want to pull the cmos battery, my other computer has no floppy drive to a disk with a hex editor key, so that came out, and I don't want to short-circuit jumpers.

WHAT IS THIS BOX FAULTY BACKDOOR PASSWORD:

satellite 135a
Phoenix BIOS

Thanks for your time.

WARNING: do not buy Toshiba products, if you do they'll think it's ok to make products with a bug in killing of long time work (buy if you work for a huge company that can afford to put your feet a week)

Here are some of the victims, but the root cause (bios password reset bug) is not identified as the systemic problem that it is:

http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=38071&TSTART=60
http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?MessageID=135528𡅨
http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?MessageID=138028𡬬
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http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?MessageID=129336🤸

They got a working laptop again? No one can say.

You are really funny to type cuban_cigar. And you are telling stories. But I want some of your stories were real and not made up from thin air.

You posted links to the son how to get rid of the BIOS password ok that nice, but it would be nice if you had read EACH case before posting something like this. In most cases, the user has lost the password!

I've got three different models of Toshiba laptops and set to update the BIOS on all laptops.
Never ever had a BIOS password problem!

I'm agree with Akuma and possibly that a single mobile model may be affected by unknown BIOS password problem.
I noticed an assignment abut M70, but it seems that the ASP took free and new update of the BIOS should help.

I also read in other forums that something like this happens also on mobile phones from OTHER manufacturers.
So in your case, I would be very careful with some things that are not known to you or not really clearly for you because you confuse others here in the forum.

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