When it comes to restoring your Toshiba laptop to its factory settings, the process is a little more in-depth than a simple reset. Unlike other manufacturers, Toshiba does not include recovery CDs ...

In his line of work, Instructables user [Harrymatic] sees a lot of Toshiba laptops come ... he would have to open the laptop case and short the CMOS reset pins or pull the CMOS battery.

If your Toshiba laptop is showing signs of system failure, restore the BIOS default settings as a troubleshooting measure; sometimes, hardware errors are the result of a misconfigured BIOS.