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    Older Toshiba Sat M30 BIOS Upgrade Difficulties

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by pbc, Aug 23, 2010.

  1. pbc

    pbc Notebook Evangelist

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    Just reinstalled a clean version of Windows XP on my parents older Toshiba M30, and installed a 1gb stick of RAM taking it to 1.5 which made it incredibly more fast versus the 512mb it came with.

    Have been installed some of the Toshiba drivers, including Toshiba Common Modules. Then tried to install the newest bios (1.5) available on the site. However, it tells me "I'm not the admin" or something along those lines.

    So I exit, reboot in safe mode, login as Admin (The only way you can in XP Home Edition). Then try it again, and it says "Toshiba Common Files" not installed. So I try also installing it in Safe Mode as Admin, reboot, login as Admin in safe mode again, and guess what?

    Same error, "Toshiba Common Modules" not installed. Curious as to what I'm missing here?

    Also, anyone know what 1.5 provided in terms of updates vs the 1.3 BIOS?

    Thanks!
     
    pbc, Aug 23, 2010
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