Satellite P205D-4378 crashed so that the BIOS update

Hello everyone,

It is my first post on the forum, although I've read here a lot.

My problem seems to be classic: had several problems with my Satellite P205D-4378 crash.
Visited the Web from Toshiba site, they have a BIOS update that fixes the problems that I have. I do the update, CRAAAASH!, dead computer.

Death seriously.

Turn on the other computer, search, find a few websites on "crisis recovery disk Phoenix.

I read religiously, run to the store, buy a FDD, some readers, usb, the Bios file download, rename, make the drive...

Trembling with anxiety, I press FN + b, switch on the machine, and it works!

Well well... at least the works of the Zombie fashion: pink LED, high speed fans, manages the USB FDD, begins the USB FDD, he read for a good two minutes! Then nothing.

'It's ok, it'll be ok' I think. The starting block is a program that is not more than 4 k, the computer has no bios, impossible to use anything, and must digest a 1000 k bios.

I wait, nothing happens.

SO what now? I tried the 'start FDD' ten times at least. Last try, I waited all night! I Went sleep after the computer read the floppy).

Whatever I do, once the disk has been read, nothing happens.

I turn it off, I unplug it, I try with battery, no battery, I speak well, I insult, I pray, I cry, I swear... NOTHING WORKS!

I do something wrong, somewhere.

On my drive are the phlash16.exe, the minidos.sys and the bios.wph (extract from a file named AASA40. ROM, downloaded with the pack zip on the toshiba site)

What should I do? I read it on some forums that computer makers like Dell and Compaq deliberately disable the Boot Block Flash, is the same thing with Toshiba?

The latest version of the bios that I have downloaded is corrupted?

Is it possible that my motherboard is physically by the update failed? In this case, is it easy to replace yourself?

I don't want to be ripped off by Toshiba for repair, if the only thing that I miss so far is a combination of keys at the end of the flash Boot Block recovery...

In short, I'm lost.

No idea to this wonderful group of reflection?

Thank you

Baaharb.

I think that the update of the BIOS based on windows is security more like an update of the traditional Bios.
Why? Because using the traditional BIOS there is always a risk that the wrong BIOS would be used.
The BIOS using focused on victory, this risk does not exist.

I know a lot of people who uses a bad BIOS and damaged module BIOS ROM.

Anyway. To show you, I think that there is one solution as mentioned by delvoie, you will have to contact the local ASP.

See you soon

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