M30 BIOS Issues...

Hi guys i have an M30 like everyone else!
I have tried updating the Bios (i originally had v1.4) so i had to downgrade to v1.2 in order to upgrade to v1.6 (as instructed by Toshiba download pages), here comes the tricky part... everything went smooth in downgrading (through the software version not the boot disk one) but when i try upgrading i get the error "you are not an authorized user"... the question to ask is... how the f@# can i downgrade but i cannot upgrade?!?!?!
This really pisses me off ... i have tried various tricks (since i don't have a floppy drive, and i don't wanna buy one just because of this...) like map network, removable device boot, cd-rom boot but still nothing works since i am trying to upgrade with the second program (the boot disk one).
Any ideas would be much appreciated

Hi Guy,
why did you downgrade to version 1.2 ?????
To Upgrade the M30 Series, version 1.2 or higher has to be installed!
I dont understand your issue....
Does your M30 do not boot any more? Have you tried to update the BIOS with the traditional version?
You dont need a Floppy drive, because, you can also burn a BIOS Update CD.
Please give me more input, that I can help you....
regards Maurice

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Hi I have a Hewlett Packard dv6 1204AX
I have it running windows 32 bit.
4GB Ram. Everything else is standard with no overclocking ever.
My problem began today when my mate bought over a black screened laptop.
We began by noticing that his would not turn on. we concluded that it might be the hard drive.
To test this we took the harddrive out of mine and put it in his. We also tried the RAM, removing that from the dv6 but it would not fit. We did not force anything.
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MSI 890FXA-GD70 and 3Ware 9750-4i BIOS issues

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MS GS70-2PE BIOS issue

Hi,
Recently i began to get an issue when you press delete button all it gives is black screen with "-" on screen.
I have not flashed bios or anything :/ so i have tried holding in the battery reset and that did not solve it and i have done power button same there nothing solved so does anyone else have a fix for this? since i cannot enter bios at all now.

well no i havent and now i began to get issue again -.- so yeah i might flash it to see if it solves it
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Update 5: i have contacted the store and hope they will replace it asap since i cannot find fix for this problem :(

Z77A-G43 GAMING Bios Issue

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Well, I had several problems with the machine over the past few days, The computer keeps failing to post and so I reset the bios as per the manual and all was well again but as soon as I restart the pc, I get the exact same problem. no post and have to reset the bios. This went on for several attempts at rebooting until now it just wont boot and resetting the bios isn't working. I know all other aspects of the setup are working because I have tested them so its the only logical conclusion.
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and you didn't change anything to the BIOS before this happens
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placing the BIOS stick over USB key
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Z77A-GD65 Multiple BIOS Issues - B4 Hang, Splash Screen Blinking

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Quote from: PirateDog on 26-August-13, 12:45:18
Probably a USB device problem.
This is a candidate, as well as mouse and keyboard. Disconnect USB devices one at a time to find the culprit.
A lot of devices running. PSU a +12V single rail or is it multi rail? A rail going to the graphics or components may not be enough amps. My best guess is the card reader.
For UEFI/BIOS flashing, select your mainboard here and use the forum flash method;
I'll definitely try unplugging some of these USB devices to see if that helps with the B4 hang issue.
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Er...and then what do I do with the issue that I have posted about originally!!
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Tecra A11 - Video/Latest BIOS issues

Hello All,
I just received a Toshiba Tecra A11 the other day which is out of warranty (Refurb). When I got the laptop there was an issue where the picture was displayed at 1024x768 and off centre (In BIOS). The image was 1-2cm off screen to the left, with about 5-6cm black space to the right of the picture, the bottom 2-3 cm's of the picture were also off the bottom of the screen.
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Thanks.

> The new BIOS was installed and the machine rebooted.
> However there was no picture displayed on the LCD panel, windows did successfully boot, if I connect an external monitor to the laptop I get picture. When starting the laptop the LCD backlight does light up.
Does this mean that everything is ok using external monitor?
Can you access the BIOS pressing F2 and can you set it to default settings?
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Quote from: Grahamburger76 on 19-November-11, 03:48:23
I have the z68-gd55 (b3). I built this PC bout two months ago. Awhile after the build, started getting BSODs during gaming and eventually was led here to flash a new BIOS. I flashed the latest beta BIOS successfully and played for several hours. Then sleep the pc but get a BSOD again when powering it back up. The BCCode indicates an issue with the GPU or driver but I have read on that there was a problem in the BIOS for the z68-gd65 (g3) that the voltage was off and needed to be set differently to accommodate
Quote from: Bernhard on 23-September-11, 03:14:41
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Yes, the BIOS I have flashed was pulled from there. I thought it had the problem resolved until it had another BSOD after several hours of use.
The Stop:error code, is that the Bug Check Code from the Blue Screen Viewer?
BBCode     0x00000116 (Parameters: fffffa80`0c09d4e0   fffff880`043a180c 00000000`00000000     00000000`0000000d)
I may have given you more stuff than you needed but I just figured to be thorough. This is the record from yesterday but there are like 5 or 6 more from the previous month that are in order from most recent to oldest.
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL BBCode 0x000000d1 (Parameters: 00000000`0000009d     00000000`00000002   00000000`00000001   fffff880`055bbe7d)
BBCode 0x00000116    (Parameters: fffffa80`089c64e0   fffff880`0b95c008   00000000`00000000   00000000`00000002)
     BBCode 0x00000116 (Parameters: fffffa80`0c2094e0   fffff880`0440780c 00000000`00000000   00000000`00000002)
SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED BBCode    0x1000007e    (Parameters: ffffffff`c000001d   fffff880`00000001   fffff880`02b982b8   fffff880`02b97b10)
CRITICAL_OBJECT_TERMINATION     BBCode 0x000000f4 (Parameters:   00000000`00000003   fffffa80`08761730   fffffa80`08761a10   fffff800`031908b0)

A305D-S6886 New Hard Drive - Can't Wake From Sleep, BIOS issue

Well I hope this is the right area and this gets listened to, I use sleep often... >.<
Laptop is a A305D-S6886 Satellite bought from ToshibaDirect.
So I dropped my laptop, and the HDD is busted. No biggy right? So I bought a new one. Spefically this one. It is a Western Digital, my Dell laptop friend used it, good reviews, exact equilivant to the one I use. Great!
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Go to school next day, and while using laptop it feels funny, like it keeps hanging. Why? It hangs when I try to resume from sleep/standby OR hibernation! That won't do. I do a bit of Googling. Tried that hotfix for 1 TB or bigger SATA hard drives, didn't work. More Googling shows this is an issue with Win7 in the beta/release client, both 32 and 64 bits. Nothing on the RTM or build 7600 except for the 1 TB or bigger SATA hard drives. Hm, maybe the HDD is broken?
With into Ubuntu 9.10 x64 Desktop edition, opened up wonderful thing called "Disk Utility." It said the following: Disk was healthy, no bad sectors, and Self-test past. Well then let's run a through SMART test! I did, and it still passed. Hm, hard drive seems perfect, so what can I do? Fiddle with BIOS settings of course! (I have version 2.10)
So the only option I could find related to SATA or HDDs was SATA mode, which had the follow options: Compatibility or AHCI. It was on AHCI, so let's try Compatibility! That didn't work, still crashed. What is next? Let's install OEM Vista that came with my computer! (Vista SP1 x64 bit)
So yay, it is done! Let's put it to sleep! What's this a crash? Then it is OS independent! Now to decide which hardware it could be: BIOS, or hard drive. Next up: stick it in my desktop and install Windows 7!
So yay, w7 has installed! Put it to sleep, it works fine! Wow what could it be? I didn't have an OEM partition before, because of the new driver, could it have been an update, or maybe the BIOS? Clean install and back on laptop!
3rd W7 install later, it crashes on sleep! OEM and software/drivers is out, so that leaves BIOS! D: This took me 2 days, and I don't think I missed any possibilities. I am pretty technically able and confident, so if you have any idea what else it could be, please reply! I use sleep often! D:
P.S. I want more options in the BIOS! D:
EDIT: Maybe some specs may help:
One of the 1st A305-S6886 made I think:
AMD Turion x2 RM-72 at 2.1 GHz
4 GB DDR2 RAM at 800 mHz (Maybe 667 mHz)
ATI HD 3470 and HD 3200, in "CrossFire"
BIOS version is 2.10
Screen size is 15.4
Chicony WebCam is broken, due to cable tearing in the case (I voided my warrenty D
This exact hard drive
Windows 7 x64 Ultimate currently installed
EDIT 2: Also, it SOMETIMES seems to resume from sleep, specifically after long periods of times in sleep mode.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Sounds like something else besides the hard drive was "busted" when you dropped it. Does it do this when you use hybernation as well as when you use sleep?
If you don't post your COMPLETE model number it's very difficult to assist you. Please try to post in complete sentences with punctuation, capitals, and correct spelling. Toshiba does NOT provide any direct support in these forums. All support is User to User in their spare time.

6714 Ver 1 BIOS issue : will not boot OS

Hi ya,
I'm wondering if there's a way to force the flash program to replace the BIOS even though it detects it as a different / incorrect version ?
Just having an interesting problem with an old(ish) MSI 6714 motherboard.
The system was installed and working fine on a users desk, however we replaced the 6714 machine with a newer one and were going to re-format 6714 system, re-install the OS and use it to replace another users system.
During the OS installation (Windows 2K SP3 corp media), after the first re-boot the system will blue screen with an error similar to IRQ_NOT_EQUAL_TO or something to that effect.
No matter how we installed the system it kept dying at the same point.
I tried ghosting a copy of the OS onto the HDD, however it gets to the initial 'Windows 2K press F8' part, the loading line flicks across, and then it hangs.
The machine always POSTS and always allows entry to the BIOS.
A strange thing is though, if you change the 'USB Mouse Support' option from Disabled to Enabled then the system POSTS as normal but dies before it even brings up the 'Windows 2K press F8' section.
Looking at the BIOS though I think this system has been installed with an 845GEM Bios, when it may have needed the 845GVM Bios instead .. as the board has no AGP slot.
I've found some other people in the Forum's who have encountered a similar issue, but none of the links in the replies have worked.
The current BIOS on the sustem is the 2003/05/07 845GEM v1.2 BIOS (4Mb)
There isn't an updated version of this BIOS, and this was the BIOS version that was on the system before I started messing around with it (I tried over-writting it again but it does the same thing when booting the OS).
To be honest I think I encountered the same problem when I first got the system, but I somehow got it working by ghosting a copy of the OS onto the system. That may have just been pure luck though .. as nothing I've tried has gotten this system to work.
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256Mb DDR266 (tested with MEMtest without error)
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Thanks Greyone, but I think I found the problem.
In answer to your Q though, the chip in front of where the AGP slot should be has a sticker on it saying 845GV ICH4.
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Thanks

UCS 1.4(3M) BIOS Issue ? no network/san boot when diskless

Recreated faithfully on multiple blades and chassis with VIC cards. Have many SAN boot nodes in production and testing and after upgrading firmware this week anytime I apply my store policy of "diskless" to a blade I lose the ability to boot from network. After much effort to work around comes down to no matter what I do with diskless storeage policy, the configured boot order will never become the actual boot order. In the BIOS all network boot options/reference are invisible, cannot enable nor add to options. Upon removing diskless storeage profile and applying "any other that I have" I see in FST that it's powering up internal storage, starting up and updating pre-boot environments, and other things related that connected the dots. Returning to BIOS all reference and options have returned as I expected due to actual boot order screen updating to match configured order and hba's of course login the fabric right away, boot is fine. While I can faithfully replice across many, many blades, they are all the models with same mezz running 1.4.3 so curious if anyone else is seeing, particuaraly now with new version out, as I have done last few weeks without issues leading me towards the firmware.
In a nut shell I see that when going diskless this is actually shutting down the storage/raid controller. i can see that clearly but no bios access to it and not sure what else is or why it's affecting network and hba also since I cannot see, it's shutting more down than low powering drive side raid. I use different profiles due to some blades having disks removed, some retain them. moving a san boot service-profile dynamically around multiple chassis will fail to associate with errors on some due to disk setup and all that. some i have disks pulled and diskless based on documentation and best practices as this customer needed several san boot only blades in that pool. But yes if I use a storage profile allowing "any disk config" for association whether it has disks, no disks, raided drives, replaces the diskless policy in same service profile it faithfully follows my boot order and boots via hba's across multiple blades, up to about 8 or 10 as of today.....b200-m2's with vic's
thx
dave

My UCS manager firmware and Adapter is 1.3.1p,
the boot policy has been set to Boot to SAN,
I checked "Hardware and Software Interoperability Matrix for UCS System Release 1.3.1"
It seems the 1.3.1 only can support the "windows 2008 r2 x64 w/Hyper-v",
so, I updated the UCS manager Bios and the adpter firmware to 2.0, but the I/O module still is 1.3.1p
I can install the "windows 2008 r2 x64" successfuly...
Now, my concern is I have a mix component software versions on my ucs blade(I used the UCS manager 1.3.1, IO module 1.3.1, the UCS Bois 2.0.1 and the adapter 2.0.1)
will the mix component software versions cause some other issues? Dose anyone can give me some suggestion?
Thanks a lot

Oh boy, another P35D3 guy here with a rebooting BIOS issue :(

Bought the following components:
1. MSI P35D3 Board
2. Intel Core 2 Duo 3.0ghz CPU (8400 series I believe)
2. Kingston ValueRAM 2 sticks of 1gb DDR3 Ram
3. NVIDIA 9600GT Video Card.
4. Nspire 750w PS
Originally it was an ATI HD3870 Card, but when I but this thing together it was actually throwing beeping codes, so I exchanged the Video for an Nvidia 9600GT (which seems to have been a bit of a downgrade).
I started experiencing the dreaded reboot problem. Thinking the board was bad, I took the whole PC back to the store, but they could not reproduce the error. Took it back home and it started working fine except for the random time that it does the continual reboot. Started to research on the net like crazy. Seems a ton of guys are having the same issues. From everything I've read I've been able to do the following:
1. Upgrade the BIOS to the latest. I'm actually confused here because I used the Liveupdate feature and it updated my BIOS to v2.5, yet the latest BIOS on the download page is v1.6???
2. Setup the BIOS Settings to PCI=4X, MPS=1.4. Disabled all non necessary devices. Disabled spread spectrum
I still have my RAM at "Enabled by SPD". I don't know what to manually put for settings for my type of RAM. Everytime I try something, it goes into the continuous reboot until I press the reset CMOS button, and I'm using the spec sheet for my RAM.
I'm posting this from another computer, but when I get to mine, I will post the info that I'm currently using.
Has anyone been able to completely eliminate this problem???

Ok, here's the RAM type that I currently have:
KVR1333D3N9K2/2G
2GB (1GB 128M x 64-Bit x 2 pcs.) PC3-10600 CL9 240-Pin DIMM Kit
DESCRIPTION:
ValueRAM's KVR1333D3N9K2/2G is a kit of two 128M x 64-bit 1GB (1024MB) DDR3-1333 CL9 SDRAM (Synchro- nous DRAM) memory modules, based on sixteen 64M x 8-bit DDR3-1333 FBGA components per module. The SPDs are programmed to JEDEC standard latency 1333Mhz timing of 9-9-9 at 1.5V. Each 240-pin DIMM uses gold contact fingers and requires +1.5V. The electrical and mechanical specifications are as follows:
JEDEC standard 1.5V ± 0.075V Power Supply VDDQ = 1.5V ± 0.075V
667MHz fCK for 1333Mb/sec/pin 8 independent internal bank Programmable CAS Latency: 5,6,7,8,9,10 Posted CAS
Programmable Additive Latency: 0, CL - 2, or CL - 1 clock Programmable CAS Write Latency(CWL) = 9(DDR3-1333) 8-bit pre-fetch
Burst Length: 8 (Interleave without any limit, sequential with starting address “000” only), 4 with tCCD = 4 which does not allow seamless read or write [either on the fly using A12 or MRS] Bi-directional Differential Data Strobe
Internal(self) calibration : Internal self calibration through ZQ pin (RZQ : 240 ohm ± 1%) On Die Termination using ODT pin
Average Refresh Period 7.8us at lower then TCASE 85°C, 3.9us at 85°C < TCASE . 95°C Asynchronous Reset
1066Mbps CL7 doesn’t have backward compatibility with 800Mbps CL5
Anyone have any ideas what manual memory settings I should try?

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