Tecera A4 Wrong Image Size for Bios update....

using the site tools to id the machine to bios...it led me to a file named...sm45v20.exe, which i downloaded & attempted to update the bios...via floppy / usb drive method.
Done this with other machines (not this one) hundreds of times before...(fix a lot of friends machines...as this is). in the readme, it states this bios is for this string of machines...
Tecra A4
Tecra A4-S111TD
Tecra A4-S211
Tecra A4-S216
Tecra A4-S231
Tecra A4-S236
Satellite M40-S417TD
Satellite M45-S165
Satellite M45-S1651
Satellite M45-S265
Satellite M45-S2651
Satellite M45-S2652
Satellite M45-S2653
Satellite M45-S331
Satellite M45-S3311
Satellite M45-S351
Satellite M45-S3511
Satellite M45-S355
Satellite M45-S3551
where the tecera a4 is model I'm working on.
However, when booting into the update, it goes through the startup....reads the existing rom image...then attempts to look at the disk version...and gives the wrong image size message. Usually, this means ether you've got the wrong bios image (hmmm...toshiba led me to it...so maybe it's wrong...but readme says it's ok) OR the download was corrupt. Re-Downed the entire set up file again (file name as mentioned above) and tried again. All disk work on my master workstation which is almost always correct. (except when it's not?)
Any ideas? What the heck is the A4 anyway? Seems like a very rare model....
<edit>...the ENTIRE model number as shown on the bottom label is:  PTA40U-1D701F   </edit>
Message Edited by SetiRich on 04-16-2009 05:53 PM

This is a maybe...
Does the A4 in question have Intel video or ATI or nVidia?
Looks like there are different BIOS files depending on the video chipset.

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