In his line of work, Instructables user [Harrymatic] sees a lot of Toshiba ... the BIOS lockout and get access to the computer, he would have to open the laptop case and short the CMOS reset ...

[Dogbert] took a look at the security that goes into BIOS passwords on many laptops. He starts off with a little background about how the systems work. People are bound to forget their passwords ...