Toshiba C40D-A Faulty BIOS?

[apbjammin]

Hey all,

I've been attempting to fix a Toshiba C40D-A laptop that was having extremely long boot times. The current issue is that it takes several hours to boot even to the BIOS screen, and during that time it boots directly to a black screen.

Components I've tested:

RAM - Reseated each of the sticks of RAM individually, no change
Hard Drive - Connected to my Desktop and it boots instantly, scanned it multiple times and wiped it clean
Windows - Clean installed, no change
Screen - Works perfectly once the computer has actually managed to boot to BIOS
Removing and reinserting CMOS battery and power cycling

I believe at this point it's an issue with the BIOS, and from what I've read it could be that there are numerous errors it's churning through before it can even get to that stage. The problem I'm now running into is an error message when I try to update the BIOS stating "Invalid Firmware Image". This happens using any of the published versions of the Toshiba BIOS for this laptop. Current version is 1.2, and none of versions 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.5, or 1.6 have worked yet.

If you have any suggestions for how to possibly update the BIOS, or possible solutions to try, I'd greatly appreciate the help.

Thanks

 

[rgd1101]

check the temps once it boot?

 

[apbjammin]

check the temps once it boot?

The temps of the CPU once it boots?