Panasonic Toughbook BIOS Password

[Lizardking]

I have a Panasonic CF-25 here with a BIOS password that I can't seem to crack. None of the default passwords work, and taking out the battery doesnt clear it no matter how long it sits....any help would be greatly appreciated!

[NeoNexus]

Make sure the mains power is totally disconnected. If its an ATX power supply a small current still flows in parts of the motherboard. Most motherboards (not all) have a jumper setting to clear the BIOS settings, look in your manual to see if your board has this, this is normally done by shorting the jumper. Failing all this, if the chip is removable, I would take it out over night and see if that works (If you never done this before, don`t try it, bent pins take a long time to straighten!!!!)

[Lizardking]

I've done all that, it sat overnight, nothing still.....

[Geek #1]

I have a couple of CMOS password crackers which may work (they have never let me down so far....)

Send me your email address and I will post them to you.

[freddy]

ok ..can i ask a couple of questions first?

the panasonic - is it a laptop (cf ???)
if the answer is yes , then i hope the following may be of help. if not then please dont bother reading the following.

I reasently had a cf4? , i think it was a 47 .
the machine was locked with a boot up password , as well as a bios i should imagine.

regarding the boot up password , i contacted panasonic (uk) for help on this matter (inc ser No.)

I was told that the cf** was built to "NATO" standards and the whole bios chip had to be removed at the "factoty" , the price they quoted was horrendus.

Now I dont know if that statment was a load of bull , but in the end I gave up with it.
Now if it is purly a bios password then as the other posters have said , there are a lot of utils out there.
YOU MUST HAVE ACCESS TO A: DRIVE
One util that comes to mind (i have used it) is KILLCMOS , this must be put on a bootable floppy and run PLEASE NOTE , killmos will report itself as a virus - it is not!!!

i hope the previous paras help - if there are any panasonic engineers out there maybe they could help?

[ab1]

I have a Panasonic CF-25 here with a BIOS password that I can't seem to crack. None of the default passwords work, and taking out the battery doesnt clear it no matter how long it sits....any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hi there lk. I also have a similar problem but with the SUPERVISOR PASSWORD. User passwords are easy to remove. What version of the CF-25 do you have? Mark2 or 3? Mark 3 has the .......EAM on the white label on the bottom of the laptop. Have a look at my post to see my problem.
cheers
ab

[urgup]

hi,

some body can help me?

Where is the bios eeprom on the cf-28 board?

Is possible to read a bin file from bios eeprom and patch and after write patched bin file back, all password is desabelt.

This is a information from a unlocker guy that offer me to patch the bin file, now my laptop is open from A to Z and i have just to find it on the motherboard.

Thx

Maurizio

[nicole2320]

As anyone figured out a way to remove the supervisor password? I removed the user but cant figure out the supervisor

[NooNoo]

general advice here (http://www.plasma-online.de/index.html?content=http%3A//www.plasma-online.de/english/help/solutions/bios_password.html)

But remember the idea of a password is so that the machine is not hacked.

[remzibi]

Hello all .
I know and I am able to remove passwords from cf-27 cf-28 etc.
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or remzibi1.*********.pl

[Arabian]

I have a Panasonic CF-50 Thoughbook and I don't know the Phoenix Bios Password can someone please help me out.

[Arabian]

This may be an easy one to most of you, but I have been asked to perferm an install on a Panasonic CF-50. I need to boot from a disk, however I cannot get into the bios/setup due to a password that I don't know. I am stuck! Does anyone know any possible way I can reset the password. Sending this to the manufacturer is not an option as I am stuck here in Iraq. Help! Please!

[NooNoo]

Arabian, I have taken your post out of the Dell Dimension thread. Please do not hijack other people's threads when the topic you wish to get an answer on is not the same as the thread in which you posted.

As you can see from the above posts, it is not easy to reset passwords on toughbooks. Security is there for a reason - after all you would be rather ticked off with the world if you learned your house key was available on the internet to anyone.

[PEKER]

I have a couple of CMOS password crackers which may work (they have never let me down so far....)

Send me your email address and I will post them to you.
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I have a Panasonic CF-28 here with a BIOS password and setup password :) that I can't seem to crack. None of the default passwords work, and taking out the battery doesnt clear it no matter how long it sits....any help would be greatly appreciated! mail adres: nebipeker@hotmail.com

[rikandsheila]

Hi, I have a CF-25 with 16mb Ram and i've just installed a 64mb stick. It still shows as 16 on boot. I have run the SETUP25 program but there is nothing which allows me to alter the Ram setting. How do i find the main bios settings.? I have tried every conceivable start up keystroke I can imagine, but with no luck. Can anyone help?

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[NooNoo]

Welcome to Windrivers rikandsheila

Alot of these older laptops have the bios on a partition on the hard drive instead of a chip. When you upgrade the ram, this partition has to be rewritten and possibly increased - yes this does mean having to completely reinstall everything!

Panasonic have some great support, but unless you register (free) you cannot access the downloads or the faqs.
here is the toughbook support (http://tcc.toughbook.com/)

Sign up and get the user manuals and search the faqs for upgrading ram. You will also find bios and driver updates there.

[rikandsheila]

Thanks for the info, the chip is in and working! Next trip is abigger HDD. I can't get it to recognise yet but i've downloaded the First Aid disk and hopefully this will help. :flame:

[confus-ed]

Thanks for the info, the chip is in and working! Next trip is abigger HDD. I can't get it to recognise yet ..

There may be trouble ahead .. (sing along ! :D - like as in Nat King Cole) Hard Disk Size Barriers (http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/bios/size.htm) may prove useful to you..

In a pc the 'escape clause' is pretty easy, add an aditional pci IDE controller card without these bios constraints, but in a laptop, your maximum disk size is much more rigid, as you can't do this, as there isn't anywhere to fit such a thing.

I'm not so sure that the toughbook documentation is gonna identify these limits for you, but be aware at least that the maximum size of disk you are adding will be limited by the bios on your toughbook :).

[mayfield]

I have a Panasonic CF-29 here with supervisor password set in BIOS that I can't seem to crack. None of the default passwords work, and taking out the battery doesn't clear it no matter how long it sits....any help would be greatly appreciated! mail adres: kpham72@gmail.com : :guns: :flames: :uke:

[3fingersalute]

I have a Panasonic CF-29 here with supervisor password set in BIOS that I can't seem to crack. None of the default passwords work, and taking out the battery doesn't clear it no matter how long it sits....any help would be greatly appreciated! :guns: :flames: :uke:

Have you tried contacting Panasonic customer support (http://catalog2.panasonic.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/vProdSupportContact?storeId=15001#email)? - We're not in the "cracking" business here so-to-speak (please see this sticky thread (http://forums.windrivers.com/showthread.php?t=70371)), although Panasonic support may be able to help you reset the BIOS password.

Also, no need to include email addresses in posts, besides feeding the SPAM-bots, answers communicated via email aren't viewable to people searching the forums with similar problems later. - Any replies should be communicated here for all to see.

[street1]

We recently ran into this problem with a Panasonic Toughbook CF-47. The laptop was set to boot from C: but the NT4 OS was missing kernel files, effectively rendering the computer useless. The way we eventually got around the problem was to unplug the hard disk. This forced it to boot from the A: drive, then ran KILLCMOS (a google search will find several sites that have this program). Once KILLCMOS was run, the bios defaulted to A: as the boot drive and the password was gone. Hope this helps.

[wgervais]

I have a cf-29 striped to the main board.can't pick out the eprom , (****in NATO standards) had bios failure while flashing ,$5000 paper weight now,only get power on light every thing else ****ed

if any one has ever reprogramed there chip please message me

[Georgi1]

I can do it.
If you need it e-mail me gdfrolov@yahoo.com

[Candy14]

HI my name is candy i need help..well recently my dad past away and he left me his belongings and in those belongings he left me his panasonic toughbook cf-18
he didn't leave any user name or password so im totally locked out any body that can help i would be so happy please help.

[NooNoo]

Welcome to Windrivers Candy14
Have you read Street1's post above?

[Candy14]

yeah i did but i talked to one of my friends and he said to just buy a new hard drive can anybody point me to a cheap on for my comp...?

[NooNoo]

This is a tough book, you have to look up the specification and get the right one and tough and cheap are rarely in the same sentence!

Use the links to panasonic and download the manual and specification. Changing the hard drive, however, won't affect the password unless this is a windows only password - in which case a reinstall of the operating system will sort the problem.

If it's the bios or boot password you are after, that's a different set up altogether. You should contact panasonic to find out exactly what you need.