Satellite P100-434 Older BIOS needed

Hello everyone,
I'm in serious need of an older BIOS version for a P100-434 (PSPAD/E) laptop. I recently flashed my BIOS with the latest version 4.80 and am having problems:
- My CD/DVD Drive has disappeared
- According to SpeedFan everything except HD0 is on fire - Temp1, Core 0 and 1 above 50C and my GPU above 60C
- The fans keep going off like crazy
- It sometime freezes
After flashing, it automatically rebooted and froze for 10sec or more and then Windows took ages to load all the drivers (the loading bar kept going for 21sec or more, usually only takes half that).
I was running version 4.70 before and had completely (as far as I could tell) no problems with it but I thought updating it might give me better stability. I would really appreciate any help you can give, thanks.

When the new BIOS update is available old version is not downloadable anymore. What you can try is to contact nearest authorized service provider and ask for help. They have access to Toshiba database and Im pretty sure they can obtain older version for you.
1/ to be honest I cannot imagine ODD issue has anything to do with BIOS update. Is optical disc drive recognized in BIOS, device manager or Windows explorer? Remove it from the device manager list, restart notebook and check functionality again. Check also method offered by Akuma
2/ Believe me these temperatures are not critical so there is no reason for panic.
3/ if you want to reduce cooling fan activity change settings for cooling method. These settings you can find in Toshiba power saver utility.
4/ For such periodical freezing issues is not easy to offer some solution. Watch carefully what happen exactly. Maybe is some certain activity responsible for this freezing issues.

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