BIOS up-grade

[Rex A. Butcher]

Hi All!

Hope Santa brought you all your worldly desires?

I have a Toshiba Satellite 2100CDS laptop. (Santa didn’t bring it.) I was l was playing around with SiSandra, who told me that I could upgrade and flash the BIOS. Current BIOS is version 7.10. Went to the Toshiba-Europe site and got hold of a BIOS upgrade (7.40) for ‘all’ 2100 models.

Have unzipped it, but now what? When I hit the *.exe file, I’m told that it doesn’t work under V86 mode. What does this mean? The *.sys file tells me that I don’t have enough memory. I have the max. that the computer can take, i.e. 160Mb. No readme files. How do I ‘flash’ or ‘shadow’ my BIOS and what exactly do those two words mean?

Thanks for any help.

Happy New Year to ya’ll.

Rex

[Murf]

If the computer is running OK with no problems then Don't flash the BIOS, for the sake of having the latest

You can loose your motherboard with a corrupt flash. But, in order to flash you will need two files:

1. The flash utility either AWARD or AMI
2. The BIOS file itself, usually a *.bin file

Both of these files need to be on a Clean Floppy.

You boot the computer with a good boot disk to get to the A:\> prompt then flash it from there. Some actually have a bootable flash, depends on the BIOS.

The web site you got the BIOS from should also have the Flash Utility and instructions.



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Murf

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But if it ain't broke - "Break It" - So we can help fix it!

[griffinspc]

Just so you don't think one reply is enough warning, listen to Murf. Do not pass go and do not flash the BIOs unless you have a problem.

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"Don't know where I'm goin but there's no sense being late"

[Rex A. Butcher]

Hi there,

Thanks guys.

It ain't broke so I'll take your advice and won't fix it. I won't even save the files to a floppy.

Thanks for the advice.

Rex