Update the BIOS to 6.40 blocks a Satellite P855-102

Hello everyone,

on 7 December, Toshiba has provided an update of the BIOS to P855 series. The old version of the update of the BIOS 1.90 and suddenly there was a 6.40 available for download... I checked the compatibility of more than twice and all (info from Toshiba on the supported models, etc. etc.) looked good. So I applied it and who went without error - but the laptop was dead afterwards! Display was dark and there was no reaction more...

As you can see - version 1.90 cannot be followed by 6.40. The numbers are just not make sense-, but I knew that I had the chance to give it back to the seller and get a new (it's only 2 days after I bought it originally) so I took a chance and tried.

It seems as if Toshiba has provided an update of the BIOS in the download area that is certainly not the model - at least not this one.

Note for Toshiba:
IF YOU PLEASE CORRECT THIS ASAP AND HIDE THIS UPDATE! Otherwise many users will be updated and damage their systems! Please take more care BIOS-implementation to date provide you to what machine/series! Your customers trust you! Giving a bad driver is the only one thing - providing a fitting no update of the BIOS is quite another dimension of the problem!

Kind regards
Jonny

Hello

I wondered about this high version number too and so I contacted the service guy in my country for the explanation.
The version of the BIOS is 6.40 because it is published also BIOS for win 8
This is the reason why there is a big leap of 1.90 to 6.40
If the output is ok.

In addition if the BIOS is NOT compatible with your laptop, you can't follow the update. Usually the update would be interrupted if the laptop model does not correspond with the version of the BIOS.

I put t know why the BIOS update procedure has not worked without problem in your case, but generally you must always ensure that NO processes are running in the background while the update of the BIOS. In addition, you must disable all firewalls, antivirus software and malware and should remove BIOS / USER passwords before running this update.

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