Satellite L30-105 (PSL33E) - BIOS downgrade succesfull

Hi all
first of all sorry for my English.

I am the owner of Toshiba Satellite L30 - 105 (PSL33E) bought in Italy. I wasn't stisfied v3.10 update of the Bios and I searched for the old version of bios, but on the server of European support, all the old bios (-2,6 3.0 etc.) disappeared.

Read this thread http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/message.jspa?messageID=120416 I read about using files of bios of US to downgrade the bios as suggested to user Anhchuong.

Many of us was skeptical about using U.S. bios on laptop computer EU.

After a lot of time and knowing US L35 - S2366 (PSL33U) have exactly the same specification of the mine (except mine have 1024 ram instead of 512 b), I decided to use v 3.0 bios version to update my bios. EVERYTHING WORKED!

At the moment, I am writing from my lappy and I can confirm that CPU temp is degrees 6-7 °.

Hope this helps someone else.

Thanks for your posting. This is a very useful info.

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