Satellite A100 PSAA8K Stuck at BIOS after BIOS is flashed

Hello all,
I used Toshiba's BIOS update utility on this machine. It was working fine before, now it gets stuck with the Toshiba splash logo. Pressing F2 and/or F12 do not work. Pressing esc. Gives the following error. No TPM or TPM has problem. Everything else seems as normal. It show Bios 6.00 which is what I'd in theory flashed it to.
I'm guessing the flash went bad. Is there an emergency recovery procedure for this?

Hi guys!
I have a great news for all, who still fighting with "no tpm or tpm has problem"!
I find a solution!
That is an instruction how to flash old bios to Toshiba Satellite A100-712 (PSAA9E):
1. Get USB Diskette Drive
2. Download Phoenix Crisis Recovery Disc with phlash16.exe 1.6.5.4
3. Create Crisis Disk by running CRISDISK.BAT (Phoenix Crisis Recovery Disc)
4. Download this version of San Antonio BIOS (5.90) from there: http://support1.toshiba-tro.de/tedd-files2/0/bios-20070709111839.zip
5. Extract files from archive and find files s10gm590.rom or s10pm590.rom
6. Copy one of this files to recovery diskette you have created before (you have to delete BIOS.WPH):
6.1 s10gm590.rom - if you have intel gm video
6.2 s10pm590.rom - if you have ATI, GeForce video
(Also you have to copy to disc file "phlash.ini" and change in this file option UI Advanced=0 to "1" this will give command to BIOS to downgrade)
7. Rename copied file "s10...m590.rom" to BIOS.WPH
8. Remove battery from your notebook.
9. Remove AC cord.
10. Plug USB Diskette Drive to notebook
11. Insert your recovery diskette.
12. Press and hold keys "WIN" and "f"
13. Plug AC
14. Push ON (sometimes is better to push 3 keys together "WIN" +"f" + "ON")
15. Your diskette drive had to start working - if not try again p.12-14
16. For a while your computer starts to beep (near 2 minutes approx.).
17. Wait until computer will reboot.
18. Press F1 when chesksum error will occurs.
That is all!
Have fun!
If you have any questions - you can send me email - [email protected]
Or ICQ: 285139991

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