Satellite L500 (PSLS9A-01U012) - bad BIOS HWsetup

first the card, I have the toshiba satellite l500 core i3 @2. 13 ghz 4 GB ram 500 GB hard drive
I bought this laptop in December and has recently had a problem that required me to reinstall windows 7. I went to a set of recovery discs, only to be told that he could not find the recovery partition. the recovery partition is still there that I can see via easeus data recovery pro. thing is try to make a backup of recovery it says cannot find the recovery partition and now the hwsetup shows the bios version as a bunch of symbols instead of the number. is there a way to fix this without ordering a set of discs from toshiba?

screenshot of hwsetup window is http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/135/biosversionscreenshot.png/

Hey,.

I put t think that the problem is related to your installation of Windows 7

In your case, I'll try to reinstall HWsetup and added value package. These two tools can be downloaded from the official website of Toshiba:
www.MyToshiba.com.au

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