Messed up Bios

baustin · Apr 22, 2011, 03:00 PM

I have a Toshiba A105 series Laptop. Decided to update Bios from Toshiba's site and must have chosen wrongone. Flashed bios with their upgrade and now tries to boot in a vicious "loop" I'm running an Intel 166 single core processor and the original bios was Phoenix technologies 1.3. Now the only thing under bios is "ver. 6.0" I have a recovery disk that came with the machine, but the only options it gives me on bootup is to 1. do away with all petitions or 2. I think, overwrite the os. I'm running win xp home without a recovery disk, I am ashamed to say, I assumed that was what the recovery disk was. Any suggestions?

OldBuzzard · Apr 22, 2011, 07:35 PM

A lot of time you can run into trouble after flashing the BIOS if you don't do a BIOS reset after flashing.

Check to see how to reset the BIOS, and see if that helps.

Ishank · Apr 23, 2011, 08:32 AM

If there's motherboard cell in your laptop then you should take it off and wait for 3 minutes. After thee minutes put it again and your BIOS will be reset.

Judas · Apr 23, 2011, 04:51 PM

the Version numbers you are giving us isn't correct...

6.0 is the bios version of the bios format.... not the actual version of the model you have..

to get that you need to go into the toshiba bios and check there.... it should be listed ....

Give us the full model number.. you gave us only the A105... there is about 30 different A105s... And if you only used the A105 to get a bios update.. yes.. there is a remote possibility you may have gotten the wrong one (as according to toshiba's support..... there are several)...

A105-xxxx (usually 3 or 4 digits.... sometimes an extra or 2 letters thrown in)

Look at the bottom of the laptop and look for the full model number...

It's a satalite right (only thing i saw with A105)..

If you get yourself an orginal Windows XP/vista/7 Disc.... without a restore function.. you should be able to install it provided your bios isn't royally messed up due to incorrect flash.. Just install it without deleting the previous install and then recover your files from the "OLD WINDOWS" folder in C drive..

Otherwise pull the hardrive out and plug it into another computer as a 2nd drive and copy/backup the files from it.

Details..... the more you give.. the better.. specially the MODEL...

Apr 22, 2011, 03:00 PM	#1
baustin HardwareHeaven Newbie Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	Messed up Bios I have a Toshiba A105 series Laptop. Decided to update Bios from Toshiba's site and must have chosen wrongone. Flashed bios with their upgrade and now tries to boot in a vicious "loop" I'm running an Intel 166 single core processor and the original bios was Phoenix technologies 1.3. Now the only thing under bios is "ver. 6.0" I have a recovery disk that came with the machine, but the only options it gives me on bootup is to 1. do away with all petitions or 2. I think, overwrite the os. I'm running win xp home without a recovery disk, I am ashamed to say, I assumed that was what the recovery disk was. Any suggestions?

Apr 22, 2011, 07:35 PM	#2
OldBuzzard DH's oldest Geek Join Date: May 2003 Location: Oberlin, OH Posts: 2,783 Rep Power: 145 System Specs	Re: Messed up Bios A lot of time you can run into trouble after flashing the BIOS if you don't do a BIOS reset after flashing. Check to see how to reset the BIOS, and see if that helps. __________________ When looking for a reason as to why things go wrong, never rule out sheer STUPIDITY

Apr 23, 2011, 08:32 AM	#3
Ishank HardwareHeaven Addict Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Sitapur,UP,India Posts: 277 Rep Power: 42 System Specs	Re: Messed up Bios If there's motherboard cell in your laptop then you should take it off and wait for 3 minutes. After thee minutes put it again and your BIOS will be reset.