Satellite Pro A120: Need to update the BIOS after upgrade CPU

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  In the Archive you will find-> Satellite Archive-> Sate 40xx you notebook series and the BIOS.
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  In my IMHO the additional features of touchpad and other devices don't work correctly because the installed drivers are not designed for Win 7 and are perhaps not fully compatible with Win 7.

  Who knows if drivers Win 7 would come out for series Sat A120 we will see
  At that time I didn t find Win 7 drivers specific for A120.

  But if there are some beta Windows 7 drivers on the US page:
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  Maybe you are lucky and some drivers running on your A120.

• Satellite Pro A120 - fan run all the time

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  I m afraid there is no alternative to reflash the BIOS to the traditional version of BIOS who can start the BIOS updated using an external USB drive and the floppy disk.

  The European driver Toshiba page contains only the BIOS Win-based that can be updated when the windows operating system. The traditional BIOS is not available for download. Only authorized service partners have access to this version of BIOS and that's why I don t see any alternative as to get in touch with the guys and to ask for help.

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  As I m wrong not the Sat Pro A120 RAM can be upgraded up to 2 GB with DDR2 533 MHz (PC2-4200) 200 - PIN SODIMM barrettes.
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  HI - new here. I have a:

  Toshiba Satellite Pro A120
  Model PSAC1E-04H00VEN number

  It's less hard drive. I have a 160 GB spare hard drive but when I try to install this using the recovery disc, the operation simply sticks on the "Please wait..." message. ». The specification for the A120, I noted that it supports drives of 40 to 120 GB. Which is strictly true and so why can't I just install this 160 GB drive?

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  Usually the 160 GB should be no problem because the laptop supports the SATA interface and there is no limit of ability so that you can install each HARD drive.

  Be interesting to know what HARD drive you have installed exactly and if you tested on another computer because the HARD drive itself could be the problem and not on the computer. If the disc is defective recovery disc can t be installed so that you get an error message.

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  Hi I have a brand new Toshiba Satellite Pro A120 but I'm having a very strange problem.

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  Are you sure you know how to update the BIOS?

  Come on cheshire! The update of the BIOS is risky If you n t know how to do!
  Usually, you don't need additional software to recognize the USB FDD drive or driver!

  I hope you have downloaded the good BIOS and use the correct procedure to update BOS, because if you do this in the wrong way to damage the motherboard!
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  Sorry, but you question is a bit confusing.
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  Hi mate,

  I m a bit confused now as a first step, you wrote that the computer can boot from the HARD drive, but then you t wrote you browse the HDD with Windows and Linux

  I'm not sure this is the problem of this but I recommend to load the default settings in the BIOS.

  If your HARD drive doesn t work could be defective (bad sectors or something else). You could test with special diagnostics as Drive Fitness Test Tools. It s a freeware tool so you can find it using Google.

  By the way: have you tried to install Windows with the Toshiba Recovery disk?