Help Recover from Bios flash on toshiba notebook

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  1. jeedee4

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  3. jeedee4

    jeedee4 MDL Junior Member

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    #3 jeedee4, Dec 18, 2009 (OP)
    Can't get the laptop to boot from any device internal or external it hangs so it does not allow me to flash it.

    Just check the mod bios using the phoenix bios editor tool and the boot fail recovery seems to be disable

    Don't know what else t do at this time
     
  4. aroenai

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  5. jeedee4

    jeedee4 MDL Junior Member

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    #5 jeedee4, Dec 21, 2009 (OP)
    No luck

    I have remove the hard drive and nothing,

    I even took apart the laptop and remove the Bios battery and same result, since this is not my notebook I had to order I new mobo and will have to replce it

    Sucks big time but I guess that's the risk in testing
     
  6. X-Ray

    X-Ray MDL Novice

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    #6 X-Ray, Dec 21, 2009
    Reset Bios

    Did you short across where the "CMOS" Battery was monted on the motherboard? Just removing it will not reset CMOS.
    Note: Be sure to remove "CMOS" Battery as shorting it out will kill it!

    PM me if you have any qustions on this as I've had to do this a few times.

    X-Ray
     
  7. jeedee4

    jeedee4 MDL Junior Member

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    #7 jeedee4, Dec 23, 2009 (OP)
    No luck try 3 times shorting it still the same

    Any other ideas

    Thanks
     
  8. esetoric

    esetoric MDL Novice

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    #8 esetoric, Dec 23, 2009
    Have you checked if there is a removable BIOS chip? All you may need is to replace that. Though, I doubt any newer laptops have those.
     
  9. ejt01

    ejt01 MDL Novice

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    #9 ejt01, Dec 26, 2009
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    Check this page, this guy managed to recover a bricked Toshiba, scroll down to the bottom of the page for instructions

    yyy.theeldergeek.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=39724

    replace yyy with www
     
  10. SnipeRR

    SnipeRR MDL Novice

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    #10 SnipeRR, Mar 23, 2010
    Try to vizit official site of notebook's producer and to download the lastest version of BIOS to your model of laptop. I hope advices would help in your problem.