BIOS flash gone wrong?
Cliff_Forster
Icrontian
I was working on a Toshiba laptop, an A135 model. There was this trouble where it would only complete the boot process every other time, just strange. I saw that there were some BIOS updates since on their website, decided to flash to the latest version, 1.9.
Since the flash, It will show the BIOS start screen with the Toshiba logo, but will not boot past that at all. Hitting the F keys do not help. Now, if I hit escape on power up, it brings up the diagnostic start up where you can see it doing its quick memory test, and from there I can hit f2 and get into the BIOS. I can adjust settings normally, but nothing allows me to boot, even if I load a disk and try to boot from CD appropriately adjusting the boot priority, that will not work.
What do we think, did I just do a big no/no to this motherboard? Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks.
Since the flash, It will show the BIOS start screen with the Toshiba logo, but will not boot past that at all. Hitting the F keys do not help. Now, if I hit escape on power up, it brings up the diagnostic start up where you can see it doing its quick memory test, and from there I can hit f2 and get into the BIOS. I can adjust settings normally, but nothing allows me to boot, even if I load a disk and try to boot from CD appropriately adjusting the boot priority, that will not work.
What do we think, did I just do a big no/no to this motherboard? Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks.
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I'd suspect that there is some failing hardware in there somewhere.
All the credit to you, you were right, the flash went fine. I had changed the RAM prior, put the old RAM back in, it booted fine, then, put the new back in and it upgraded okay. Strange little issue, but fixed now.
Thanks.