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carsten888_1

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Registered: 14/05/12

Tecra 8100: updating bios from cd. exe won't run from command line
Posted: 24-May-2012 19:29

I want to update the bios of my Tecra 8100.
I downloaded the bios, but as the pc has no floppy, I cretaed a bootable cd like this

When I boot the pc, do F2, press c to boot from cd, I get into a dos-like environment. I went to drive Z, did 'dir', and see the bios.exe I burned on cd. To run it I type bios.exe and keep getting "command of filename not recognized" when i type dir *.exe, it does not see the file either.

Maybe I am overlooking something here?

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PauPau

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Registered: 21/09/09

Re: Tecra 8100: updating bios from cd. exe won't run from command line
Posted: 25-May-2012 09:08

in response to: carsten888_1

Hi

Your described method does not apply to Toshiba notebooks.
Every notebook manufacturers supports different BIOS update procedures…

Check this Toshiba US page:
http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/support/jsp/downloadDetail.jsp?soid=356848&pf=true
Here you can download the latest BIOS for Tecra 8100

The 4810.25 package needs to be unzipped firstly.
Then you have to check the available files.
There is a readme.txt which describes the BIOS update procedure using the CD ISO file.

Hope I could help

carsten888_1

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Registered: 14/05/12

Re: Tecra 8100: updating bios from cd. exe won't run from command line
Posted: 25-May-2012 14:14

in response to: PauPau

Thank you.

It was a different bios then on this page:

I got there from this page

The download contained a iso, so that was easy enough to do the update.

Thank you very much.

Laptop is fully functional again, better then it ever did on win98se.

PauPau

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Registered: 21/09/09

Re: Tecra 8100: updating bios from cd. exe won't run from command line
Posted: 25-May-2012 14:19

in response to: carsten888_1

Laptop is fully functional again, better than it ever did on win98se.

Thanks for feedback

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