Satellite Pro A300-28V - my bluescreens disappeared when the BIOS has been upgraded

I'm curious to know about it. The machine is a Satellite Pro A300-28V with Vista32/Win7.
Had problems with bluescreen dumps referring to 'iaStor.sys '. I was about to send the laptop in for repair when I made this last effort to resolve the problem. Upgrade 1.9 to 2 BIOS, 1 - Win.

All of a sudden my system image succeeded! Even at an Iomega home network HDD. Without complex!
No blue screen exports even at startup 'cold' (after a free night)!

For now, I leave the computer in sleep mode while I am at work. Let's see if he managed a day without landfills.

What is the technical difference between 1.9 and 2.1 BIOS? No idea if it's something with iaStor.sys to do?

/ssstsg

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Hi mate

This is really good news as your BSOD displeasured after the BIOS update.
The BIOS give instructions to the test power - on self test (POST) and provide basic information on how to manage components of the laptop, as HDD, ODD memory, that are required to load the operating system.

Who knows, what was changed in the update but the main thing is that all the work and the update solve your BSOD

> No idea if she has something with iaStor.sys to do?
iaStor.sys is part of the SATA driver who is required to recognize the HARD drive using AHCI mode.

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