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From: Salvador Freemanson on 25 May 2010 16:01
Hello,
I am trying to repair a Toshiba Satellite L300D-10Q laptop that won't
boot ever since my nephew decided to flash the bios and then turned off
the power part-way through. So now, when I turn on the power, the LEDs
flash and the fan and DVD whirrs but that's about all. A sure sign that
the BIOS is not working.

Searching around on the web quite a bit, I found a procedure to reinstte
the BIOS. It burning the original bios file to a CD.
My problem is where to get hold of the original bios file.
The Toshiba website provides a download to upgrade the bios from inside
Windows. It's an executable windows programme, that upgrades the bios
while Windows is running. But the bios itself is no doubt burried inside
it somewhere deep.

Anyone know where to find the bios. Or maybe they could post it. Please.
Thanks

From: Pen on 26 May 2010 16:29
On 5/25/2010 4:01 PM, Salvador Freemanson wrote:
> Toshiba Satellite L300D-10Q
have you tried here? Watch the wrap.
http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/support/jsp/modelContent.jsp?ct=DL&os=&category=&moid=2221251&rpn=PSLC8U&modelFilter=L300D-ST3501&selCategory=3&selFamily=1073768663
From: Salvador Freemanson on 26 May 2010 19:13
On 26/05/2010 22:29, Pen wrote:
> On 5/25/2010 4:01 PM, Salvador Freemanson wrote:
>> Toshiba Satellite L300D-10Q
> have you tried here? Watch the wrap.
> http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/support/jsp/modelContent.jsp?ct=DL&os=&category=&moid=2221251&rpn=PSLC8U&modelFilter=L300D-ST3501&selCategory=3&selFamily=1073768663


Thanks, that's just the kind of thing I needed - bootable from a CD.

Trouble is, it doesn't cover my model.
According to the readme file it inclues, it covers the models PSLC8U,
PSLC9U and PSLE8U. Mine is the PSLC0E. I've looked through the site and
can't find a similar file for my model.

I'm not sure about flashing the bios for a different model. Any idea how
similar they are?
From: Pen on 26 May 2010 20:48
On 5/26/2010 7:13 PM, Salvador Freemanson wrote:
> On 26/05/2010 22:29, Pen wrote:
>> On 5/25/2010 4:01 PM, Salvador Freemanson wrote:
>>> Toshiba Satellite L300D-10Q
>> have you tried here? Watch the wrap.
>> http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/support/jsp/modelContent.jsp?ct=DL&os=&category=&moid=2221251&rpn=PSLC8U&modelFilter=L300D-ST3501&selCategory=3&selFamily=1073768663
>>
>
>
> Thanks, that's just the kind of thing I needed - bootable from a CD.
>
> Trouble is, it doesn't cover my model.
> According to the readme file it inclues, it covers the models PSLC8U,
> PSLC9U and PSLE8U. Mine is the PSLC0E. I've looked through the site and
> can't find a similar file for my model.
>
> I'm not sure about flashing the bios for a different model. Any idea how
> similar they are?
Well this BIOS comes up in a search for your model, so I'd
try it. You don't have much to lose since the machine is
trashed now.
From: Salvador Freemanson on 27 May 2010 02:13
On 27/05/2010 02:48, Pen wrote:
> On 5/26/2010 7:13 PM, Salvador Freemanson wrote:
>> On 26/05/2010 22:29, Pen wrote:
>>> On 5/25/2010 4:01 PM, Salvador Freemanson wrote:
>>>> Toshiba Satellite L300D-10Q
>>> have you tried here? Watch the wrap.
>>> http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/support/jsp/modelContent.jsp?ct=DL&os=&category=&moid=2221251&rpn=PSLC8U&modelFilter=L300D-ST3501&selCategory=3&selFamily=1073768663
>>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks, that's just the kind of thing I needed - bootable from a CD.
>>
>> Trouble is, it doesn't cover my model.
>> According to the readme file it inclues, it covers the models PSLC8U,
>> PSLC9U and PSLE8U. Mine is the PSLC0E. I've looked through the site and
>> can't find a similar file for my model.
>>
>> I'm not sure about flashing the bios for a different model. Any idea how
>> similar they are?

> Well this BIOS comes up in a search for your model, so I'd
> try it. You don't have much to lose since the machine is
> trashed now.

Odd that Tosh put software for some models and not others on their web site.
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