Compatible BIOS ACPI for Satellite Pro A30

Hello, I have a Satellite Pro A30 which has 1 GB RAM and 2.8 GHZ P4 processor. I was wondering when toshiba would provide ACPI compatible BIOS upgrades for these machines? Because I would like to upgrade to Windows Vista, when running the Vista Upgrade Advisor, my machine will work Windows Vista professional, but I just want to use Windows Vista Basic.

So I started the upgrade of Windows XP, and once the computer is restarted to begin installation of Vista I was faced with the blue screen, indicating that my BIOS is not fully ACPI.

It seems such a shame that the machine is up to running under Vista, but Toshiba did not provide updates to bios ACPI. My bios version is 1.80.

Any idea?

Hi Keith

Sorry to say but I agree with the above stanislaus.
I'm wondering if this laptop has Vista capable sticker? Not?
Well well, in such cases, it of not a big surprise that Vista can not be installed.

Of course, I installed Vista on my M40 unit.
I was a lucky guy ;) But I put t expect that Vista will run on each computer on this world some laptops really supports Vista and some not :(

By the way: I found this document:
http://support.toshiba-tro.de/KB0/TSB7201SK002HR01.htm

Seems that the old A30 is not supported for Vista

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