SA60 no boot after bios 1.9 upg

Hello

I have a toshiba satellite sa60, windows XP SP2, all of the latest patches. with bios 1.7; Last weekend, I tried this update to the bios: http://support.toshiba-tro.de/tools/bios/satellite/a60/win/bios-190win.zip.
I followed all the instructions to apply the hotfix; A/c output connector; all other applications closed; I've always had a home IP nr, through my local network internet; the windows for the patch exe properly open and began to install the patch has install the hard closed machine in itself.
I pushed the Start button but it only beeps 3 times (beep - beepbeep)
and then off again; I tried again and again with or without battery but still the same thing happened; the guarantee missed about a month before; I called and they said it should be diagnosed; so, today I brought to a toshiba service center, who will probably be charge me an arm and a leg for it, and it is their software that broke my laptop in the first place! While this story is one warning to others: the bios upgrades are shit!

Andy
(I write from my Ibook now)

Hi Andy,.

I sympathize with your problem, the BIOS updates are extremely risky procedures and I normally only suggest to them when there is a known problem that will correct the BIOS update.

We hope that your ASP will flash your BIOS with a working BIOS chip since it will be much cheaper than the alternative of replacing the motherboard.

You will see many messages recommending that a BIOS update should be performed in order to correct all sorts of problems, but in reality a BIOS update should be made only as a last resort.

I hope that things work out well for you.

Kind regards

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