Computer-- Toshiba Satellite A205-S4639
Problem- Displays Bios password/and after working on it, screen is now black (barely visible)
Ok after hours and hours of research and reading of alot of useless info heres what I have assessed.
1. Removing the CMOS Battery does NOTHING. (though many post this works. It doesnt, so dont bother removing it then having to have another headache of soldering it.)
2. There is NO Master Password, if there is it is solely known by Toshiba Techs (who must obviously sign some agreement to not release said info- that way toshiba makes a easy 150-200.00 a pop just to type a password in the bios.)
I typed in so many Phoenix passwords, any I found, and all the others too that werent even Phoenix bios MPW. I did all the other steps listed as well. This was a waste of time as well. So dont bother.
3. I made the boot disk of an ISO file from Paragon site, it didnt work. Just starts up same as always asking for Bios password. Will NOT boot from disk, tried holding "C" Key to make it boot from CD. NO luck. I even removed harddrives to it had only one source to boot from. NO luck.
4. So last option, is to flash the eeprom called "24C02" or something. Where is this located on the motherboard? Does anyone have a picture? How exactly do i go about this?
My other issues is since I have started this project (course of 2 months now) the screen now is pratically black. I have angle it and sqint just to see the screen info. I dont think I hooked anything up wrong, have read it could be inverter, but dang its like a brand new cpu. So hoping this is just an issue on how I hooked it back up.
Lastly, just rough having a paperweight of such a nice cpu. It still has ALL the stickers on it, and I cant even get it to work.....
Thank you for any info, and thx for the invite to the only forums imo that even sheds viable information to the masses.
PS. Please refrain from posting things like "Just send it off, they will fix it" as this means I can fix it with the right info. IF you dont know factual informaiton please dont post a guess either. Sifting through 1000's of posts of pure guesses have wore me down. I just want factual information, regarding others experince with this model.
TY again!!
XaNaToS
Problem- Displays Bios password/and after working on it, screen is now black (barely visible)
Ok after hours and hours of research and reading of alot of useless info heres what I have assessed.
1. Removing the CMOS Battery does NOTHING. (though many post this works. It doesnt, so dont bother removing it then having to have another headache of soldering it.)
2. There is NO Master Password, if there is it is solely known by Toshiba Techs (who must obviously sign some agreement to not release said info- that way toshiba makes a easy 150-200.00 a pop just to type a password in the bios.)
I typed in so many Phoenix passwords, any I found, and all the others too that werent even Phoenix bios MPW. I did all the other steps listed as well. This was a waste of time as well. So dont bother.
3. I made the boot disk of an ISO file from Paragon site, it didnt work. Just starts up same as always asking for Bios password. Will NOT boot from disk, tried holding "C" Key to make it boot from CD. NO luck. I even removed harddrives to it had only one source to boot from. NO luck.
4. So last option, is to flash the eeprom called "24C02" or something. Where is this located on the motherboard? Does anyone have a picture? How exactly do i go about this?
My other issues is since I have started this project (course of 2 months now) the screen now is pratically black. I have angle it and sqint just to see the screen info. I dont think I hooked anything up wrong, have read it could be inverter, but dang its like a brand new cpu. So hoping this is just an issue on how I hooked it back up.
Lastly, just rough having a paperweight of such a nice cpu. It still has ALL the stickers on it, and I cant even get it to work.....
Thank you for any info, and thx for the invite to the only forums imo that even sheds viable information to the masses.
PS. Please refrain from posting things like "Just send it off, they will fix it" as this means I can fix it with the right info. IF you dont know factual informaiton please dont post a guess either. Sifting through 1000's of posts of pure guesses have wore me down. I just want factual information, regarding others experince with this model.
TY again!!
XaNaToS