Satellite A500-1DN (PSAR3E) - Dead BIOS after flashing

Hi all.
At first, sorry for my english.
My problem is simple I have a dead bios after flashing from toshiba service station (or something like that).
How does it happened? :4 days ago it was asking me for update. It was for me totaly normal because it is asking for some updates every day. I enablished that update and after some cliks on button next I noticed that it was BIOS update and it was nearly at half. I wanted to wait to end (because i know if I stop bios uptade I end up with dead bios(corrupted bios)) but it stoped nearly at end and it showed me some errors. After that my laptop made a restart and i could not stop it. It turned off.
Now if i push power button i get black screen (like it is turned off) som leds lights and Cpu fan at 10% maybe.
What i did 3 last days? : I searched all the interned about what to do with it. I tried maybe 10 types off crisdisks with usb and CD(with floppy not becose Bios for my laptop is too big for 1 floopy).
I tried to boot with FN+B it worked for me CD drive started to search for CD, USB drive showed activity but to dead end happened nothing. I tried to make Boot usb with newer minidos.sys and phlash16.exe. I tried to combinate it but still nothing.
I tried all what i found on forums everywhere on internet. nothing helped.
Another thing is that only one bios i found was 1.90. If somebody has a older bios for my laptop pls give me link. I am losing hope becose i cant find anithing on google.
I am a advenced user I did nearly everithing with pc but i never worked with dead bios.
Pls help me somebody and give me a correct crisdisk for my model. Or different sugestion.

hi,
sorry, mate but you should contact the Asp http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/generic/ASP_SUPPORT/
Unfortunately, the warranty doesn't cover bios failure and you will have to pay about 50-60 Us dollars (Anyway, it costs like this in my service center)

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