Reply With QuoteI've been using BIOS v. 3.4 since the end of May (M400, WinXP). It cured a lock-up problem I'd been having for a long time. I didn't experience any new "surprises" after installing 3.4. I haven't looked at v. 3.6.
Anyone using the v3.6 BIOS with a WinXP M400?
Toshiba insists I should jump all the way to the 3.6 BIOS even though it was a Vista BIOS. One expert here likes the 2.1 for the M400. A couple of fixes that happened around v3.3 and above sound good so I am tempted to take Toshiba's advice.
...but they've been wrong before!
I am way back at 1.4, so I gotta do something!
Comments?
Jonathan
I've been using BIOS v. 3.4 since the end of May (M400, WinXP). It cured a lock-up problem I'd been having for a long time. I didn't experience any new "surprises" after installing 3.4. I haven't looked at v. 3.6.
If you are staying with XP, V2.1N is the best, as you get widescreen AND the better fan management. All the 3.X versions for Vista have poor fan management.
The fan management he's referring to was crucial to me. The fan noise was driving me batty, and I had put a lot into the computer, extra memory, the fastest hard drive, the high res screen, but also I bought two extra regular batteries and a slice battery. Listening to the fan was really a drag, and I didn't want to take it into meetings because of that, and there's no way to just tell the fan to blow away, so to speak. The BIOS Wayne points you toward makes the noise manageable, if not negligible. Fan management sounds like some Hollywood publicity agency, but it's way more important.
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