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    Satellite P50T-A Bricked

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by TomPernis, May 1, 2015.

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    I was upgrading the BIOS on this model (PSPMHA-01600L) in Win8.1 today from v1.0 to v1.9. Three quarters of the way through writing the FLASH the laptop shut down. AC mains was in and definitely on. Never in my life of flashing BIOSes has this crap happened.

    Here are my options in order of preference:

    A) Someone here can reveal to that that putting say FW.BIN on an MSDOS-16 USB stick and pressing CTRLB at poweron will fix everything (or something like this).
    B) I can locate the flash chip, desolder it and JTAG the binary in. (I can do this).
    C) Buy a new motherboard.

    I'd really love A to happen. Does anyone have advice on this matter?
     
    TomPernis, May 1, 2015
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