text: i bought a laptop toshiba from a pawn shop. there is a power on password how do i bypass this? how do i bypass the power on password on a toshiba laptop. contact toshiba with the model, part, and serial number of the machine.  they *may* be able to help you disable this password  some of the older pc's all you had to do was to remove the battery on the motherboard for apeoximately 30 seconds  other machines have a jumper that will clear all user values in the eprom   others you have to pull the eprom ic (because the backup battery is soldered to the mother board.  since you got it from a pawn shop there also is the possibility that it was stolen, so you could take it to the local police and see if they have a "computer forensics expert" on staff. he/she should also be able to help you, and can also keep you out of trouble it  it turns out to be stolen.  normally a pawn shop dealer would not buy a laptop that they knew wouldn't  boot up, so it sounds like you might have something hot. -- just an opinion...  good luck