Bios reset Satellite L50

postmanfw · 24 Oct 2018 at 22:52

Looking for help on how to reset the bios on a Toshiba Satellite L50-C-1T1

1 year old laptop suddenly decided to put a bios password on itself

Tried the usual remove battery and looked for points on motherboard but cant find any.

No bios battery to remove either

Thanks in advance

PiKe · 24 Oct 2018 at 23:07

Must be a capacitor somewhere that holds the charge for the bios?

bremen1874 · 24 Oct 2018 at 23:22

Anything under the memory?

postmanfw · 25 Oct 2018 at 09:35

Nothing under the ram no... Or under the sticker.

tropicola · 25 Oct 2018 at 12:54

looks like the above, but labelled g2

might be under the ram

edit: just had a thought also, if it set itself probably a default password like "Toshiba" or "Toshiba"

and also not sure the above reset will clear the password only reset bios might have to call toshiba (apprently some common issue with their bios firmware etc)

they like to hide under stickers also

for example;

postmanfw · 28 Oct 2018 at 19:25

Already checked under the stickers and tried a whole list of default passwords

tropicola · 30 Oct 2018 at 12:34

postmanfw said:
Already checked under the stickers and tried a whole list of default passwords

if there is no battery might use the main battery, maybe remove this for at least an hour or so to make sure all the charge is gone from capacitors etc

failing that, toshiba support give them a call it seems from googling this is a bit of a common issue they should be able to help

postmanfw · 30 Oct 2018 at 14:03

Thanks but already left the batter out for about 10 days whilst away on holiday...no effect.

will try Toshiba but its out of warranty so guessing that will be an issue with them

Thanks though

tropicola · 30 Oct 2018 at 18:02

postmanfw said:
Thanks but already left the batter out for about 10 days whilst away on holiday...no effect.

will try Toshiba but its out of warranty so guessing that will be an issue with them

Thanks though

not a warranty issue, they should be able to give you default password/method of reset as long as you can prove its yours.

ANDARIAL · 30 Oct 2018 at 18:18

https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/Q13eMAeZP5VqQBOV.huge
JRST2501 try shorting this
EDIT Looks like it was the wrong model i found,this one has a cmos battery

Dazza91 · 9 Mar 2019 at 12:50

I found this to be helpful for resetting the Supervisor password a friend set on the Toshiba L50-B-1UV with motherboard DA0BLKMB6EO. Shorting these two gold triangles with some tweezers took immediate effect of removing the password, no need to remove anything although I did remove the HDD to prevent data corruption. NOT SURE IF THIS CORRUPTS A SECTOR IN THE HARD DRIVE BUT FIXING THE COMPUTER RENDERED THE HDD LIKELY TO FAIL AND COULDNT BOOT FROM IT SO BEWARE, EVEN THOUGH IT WASNT INSERTED WHEN PERFORMING THIS SHORT. NO WARRANTY! A NEW HDD WORKS THOUGH LUCKILY FOR ME

Kfkfjhhhh · 23 Jul 2019 at 11:46

Dazza91 thanks for the instructions, I just want to mention that you need to short those contacts while turning the laptop on. It works flawlessly.

Cheers