REALLY BIG PROBLEM

Forum: Laptops
Topic: REALLY BIG PROBLEM
started by: dannyjr088

Posted by dannyjr088 on July 01 2005,15:01

Alright I'm two for two I have sucessfully stumped both the toshiba technical support line as well as an authorized dealer who could only tell me its gonna cost $75 go figure. The laptop I have is a toshiba A60-S166. It has a Pentium 4, 764MB Ram, 40Gb HDD, Atheoros Wifi, and some other stuff that i dont think is really important. But anyways the problem I have is that my dsl keeps having a "kernel panic" which isnt a big deal if I could boot from cd. However, there is one problem...I can't because I can't open BIOS to change order of booting. I have a BIOS password on but I know it and I enter it and it says "System check. Press[F1]". So I press F1 to open BIOS and unfortuantely damn LILO boots up instead. I'm completely lost and have no idea what to do. Any ideas?

Thanks

Posted by gbuscrizist on July 19 2005,04:26

you could take your laptop apart and take out the CMOS battery, that resets the Bios's password and other things, and then once you put it back in and put ur laptop back together you might be able to get to your Bios and if not, you could take your Hard Drive out and then it should boot from the next availble drive. i would try the hard drive first, because usually it is near the bottom and can be removed easily

Posted by cbagger01 on July 19 2005,04:37

Those are some good ideas.

I'll have to remember them for future use.

Posted by gbuscrizist on July 19 2005,05:26

thanks, i had to do stuff like that because i messed my hard drive partitioning up once, and my xbox modding skills... lol i love my modded xbox with uses the linux kernel of course. hope that fixed your problem

Posted by kopsis on July 19 2005,12:20

I once had a Compaq sub-notebook once that kept its BIOS setup utilities on a special partition on the hard drive. Had to be real careful when re-partitioning not to kill the BIOS partition or the MBR.

It's remotely possible that Toshiba does something similar. If you have system restore disks that came with the laptop, you may be able to go that route (but of course it will probably end up completely wiping and reformatting the HD).