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    BIOS Crisis Recovery on Toshiba Satellite P100 - factory disabled?

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by bladteth, Jan 17, 2008.

  1. bladteth

    bladteth Notebook Geek

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    Hi,

    Usual story. Windows based BIOS upgrade (WinPhlash) went wrong and my P100 died. I've come across Crisis Recovery procedure that should work on any PhoenixBIOS based laptop. However, I either must be doing something wrong or the motherboard is toasted more than I expected. In my case, I’ve followed the procedure carefully, but my P100 doesn’t want to enter crisis recovery mode at all. It doesn’t even try to access/boot USB floppy drive. I’ve just tested it with my wife’s A100 and all drives (HD, DVD and FDD) light their LEDs right after powering up the laptop, so the floppy drive is working fine. When I press power button on my P100, fans start to rotate, hard drive spins up (and chipset heatsink becomes warm after a while), but pressing Fn+B or Win+B as described in CR procedure doesn’t produce a slightest change in laptop’s behaviour. Floppy drive is Toshiba branded, so there should be no compatibility problem. Power is supplied to all USB ports, but somehow my P100 refuses to access FDD on start-up. Any help?

    Cheers,
    bladteth
     
    bladteth, Jan 17, 2008
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  2. allan_huang

    allan_huang Notebook Deity

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    I think its time for you to send it in.
    Didn't even know there was a Crisis Recovery for the BIOS
     
    allan_huang, Jan 17, 2008
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  3. bladteth

    bladteth Notebook Geek

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    Crisis Recovery is mentioned in PhoenixBIOS documentation. I've read people have had luck with P200 and some A series Satellites ( example). There are instructions and files on this German website. It should work in case of bad BIOS flash, which is somewhat common with Windows based application.

    Regards,
    bladteth
     
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    bladteth, Jan 18, 2008
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