To everyone with recent BIOS update flash failure problem...

Well I've been looking around online to try to get suggestions before spending an obscene amount of money and time on this issue and after many hours found something really helpful that I myself am still working on (I'm in the process of waiting for a USB Floppy drive and old school diskettes to arrive at my doorstep. I haven't had the need for one since the 90's when I was in junior high school). I found this on another forum, but let me preface this by saying that I am a new member there and my intent is simply to inform those here that want information and to have access to it, not generate traffic to or flood a forum. The fix is a do-it-yourself thing so I don't know if a warranty could be voided (but it is a software fix for those that still have power to the board). I can't say it as best or as good as others have so Ill post the link to the entire thread where others can read:

http://www.theeldergeek.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=36309

NOTE: I'm pretty sure that this method could work for other brands of laptops as far as creating a boot disk with a plug-and-play USB floppy drive, but "Crisis Recovery Disk" was designed by Phoenix Technologies for Phoenix BIOS installed in some Toshiba laptops (Source: http://web.telia.com/~u43311424/crisis-recovery-disk/ ). Lastly - the host of the webpage with the crisis-recovery-disk actually cites this forum as one of the sources used to gather information about this method of fixing your BIOS.

I'll update this letting everybody know the results of the bootable floppy method to my particular problem (BTW, my machine that I am having trouble with is an A215-S7437). My current problem is the lockout because I get the prompt asking for a password that didn't previously exist. This suggested method has worked for many people and thier BIOS problems, but there are a few others that may still be having trouble or a dead board. Also - I've looked into trying to format a USB flash drive to boot as a floppy and did a lot of homework (From this source: http://www.bootdisk.com/ ) and I think it would require a bit more work on my end so I really decided to just spend a little for the USB floppy drive than trying to make my USB flash drive be recognized as a USB floppy and mimicking the entire format of files and layout of a diskette in addition to making the USB Flash drive bootable and still working the files into the correct order that I need the MoBo to read what I want it to read.