I turn my laptop on and its black

after typing your password and once the screen goes black again press [ctrl+shift+esc] this will open task manager

then click file > new task (run)
and run explorer.exe.

your desktop should open up

some one must have put in a boot password to your laptop,
follow this:
When booting up, enter your BIOS setup (usually by pressing the F2 key at the appropriate time).

Locate the BIOS Password section and turn the ON STARTUP password to off. There is no standard setup for BIOS, so I can't give you exact instructions.

If this does not work, try:
remove cell & start your pc you will here beep...beep...beep...

then turn off your pc & restore your cell.Start your pc and
password is removed.

there is a battery on motherboard,a button cell,you can try removing that and start computer, then put it back, bios settings will be lost.
you can also try removing any hardware like ram,if you have two,when system is off,turn on , it will prompt for changes , enter bios and try remove password.

Dear beanbean,
This "lovely black screen" is a BIOS password screen. This shows up because somebody has set a boot-up password in the BIOS Setup. If you're lucky, the BIOS Setup is still unprotected, and you can access it as follows:
When you turn it on, look for something that says "Press [button] to enter Setup" or "Press [button] to enter Setup Utilities." Press the corresponding button on your keyboard, and you should enter BIOS Setup.

Now two things can happen. Either you are permitted to access Setup, or you are prompted for the password.
If you can access Setup, navigate to the Security tab and clear all set passwords.If not... then you can either reset BIOS by unplugging the computer, taking off the back, and removing the CMOS Battery (unrecommended), or you can call Toshiba support and ask for the master password (Most manufacturers have a master password, which will allow you to access Setup and remove the boot-up password)
Hope this helps,Ericthecmh

Oh be care full here some systems will only allow you a certain trys at entering the password then they will just stop functioning.Try moving on without entering a password at all(blank box etc)'
Good luck
Davey Snake!!!

is it a windows password or poweron password? you must be wondering what are they?
windows password is when you have to enter the password to get into windows and before that you get to see the windows loading screen.
poweron password is hard to crack, it will ask a password on a black screen saying Enter a Password, and the background will be completely black in color.
if its a windows password, press the "Alt+Ctrl+Del" twice, you'll get a screen which will ask you a username and password. in the username and password type in, "Administrator" and password will be blank. hit enter. if it works, then for the rest of the steps, mail me at [email protected]

Well, someone if not you- have enabled BIOS password.. So, u better start asking around whoever it maybe.. :) Good luck..

There is a jumper located on your motherboard that you need to use to reset your bios password. You can generally find this information in the manual that came with the notebook. If you don't have the manual you'll need to go to the toshiba website.

Please note that resetting a jumper on a motherboard is not the easiest thing to do on a notebook computer. You're talking about taking apart and putting on eback together. Be very careful not to let any static electricity hit the machine.

when upower up press F8 key then enter in enable vga mode.
then set screeen resolution to 1024*768
and if u r not abled to login enable vga then enter in safe mode.
then go to start menu run then type in run "chkdsk /r"
thats it
then restart it then it fix error on hardddisk.

I'm not sure if this will work but it may be that your system bios is asking for a password. If so, as you reboot the system, press F8 down until the system bios screen appears. Then page thru to see if the bios is asking for a system password. If so, you should be able to deactivate it thru the bios.

Hope this works.