Satellite Laptops :: all other models

[#1]

I received a text message from Toshiba today that give me hyperlinks to ACPI Flash BIOS versions 1.10, 1.20 and 1.40.  Do I need to do anything with this?  If I'm not mistaken these are over 4 million kbs for each version. I use a Satellite L505-S6946.  (I'm not sure what BIOS is.)  If someone will, please respond and make some sense of this.

[#2]

Follow the below link. It will tell you about the bios. Unless you are having problems I would leave the bios alone.

http://compreviews.about.com/cs/pchardwarebasics/a/aaBIOS.htm

[#3]

Another BIOS question:

The HD on my Satellite M40 died and I replaced it with a new drive.  However, my Toshiba Recovery and Applications disk will not work to reload Win 98 and necessary drivers.  It gets stuck in a loop asking me whether I REALLY want to do this and do I know this will erase all information on the HD; then it asks the same two questions over and over again and won't progress.  On a message board I read that this is due to having BIOS 1.20 instead of the original BIOS.  Any information on this?  If so how do I regress to 1.0?

Oh, and I did use the Express Media Player Recovery CD first, which enabled me to get this far.

Thanks for any information.

[#4]

I have noticed that yesterday, there has been a BIOS update on toshiba web site for L505 model  PSLS3E, but there is no changelog.... I have ACPI issues under Linux (fan speed not regulated) but not under Windows, so I don't think I will upgrade (it is definitely a software problem)....

[#5]

I read through most of the BIOS information at the link. I decided to ignore any updates I receive. Thank you for guidance on this.