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    Toshiba Portege 320CDT

    I have been given an old Toshiba Portege 320CDT on which someone set and forgot the supervisor password, the one that comes up at power on. Does anyone know if the Parallel dongle trick will work on this model for resetting the password. The default backdoor passwords do not. The key disk option does not.



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    Quote Originally Posted by houseisland
    I have been given an old Toshiba Portege 320CDT on which someone set and forgot the supervisor password, the one that comes up at power on. Does anyone know if the Parallel dongle trick will work on this model for resetting the password. The default backdoor passwords do not. The key disk option does not.



    Thanks.

    Are we talking about bios password??
    You could change harddrives but If bios, I do not think it would matter,
    pulling battery may reset bios. This is over my head. I do not know
    what a Parallel dongle is

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    Sorry, I've not been involved with Toshibas, I can't say if the bypass dongle works for that model.

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    By key disk option, do you mean the floppy that resets the BIOS password?

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    Hi,

    We are talking about the Supervisor password that is set in the BIOS. This is distinct from the BIOS password. The Supervisor password challenge kicks in at power up. It is needed to start the laptop.

    The key disk option is the floppy disk that can be put in at boot to reset the BIOS password. It seems to have no effect on the Supervisor password.

    Some Toshiba laptops will bypass the Supervisor password if you hold down the left shift key but not this one.

    The parallel port dongle is a male RS232 connector with multiple pins crossed. As Platypus says it "bypasses" the supervisor password allowing it to be reset.

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    It should work just fine.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Damned Angel
    It should work just fine.
    Sweet success!


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    Excellent! Thanks to google I know what a parallel dongle is. Glad you got it OPEN

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    Hi,

    What is a fair price for a replacement battery for the Portege 320ct? And does anyone have any recommendations for reputable vendors?

    On the web I see batteries ranging in price from $36 for after-market units to $160+ for Toshiba originals.

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