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qosmio f50-freeze when trying to update bios-black screen
Hi! I own a Qosmio f50 laptop and today i download the file from toshiba to update my bios. Everything went well until installer reaches block 16 when system freezes. I left it half an hour and then tried to power-off the pc with the button, but it dont. I unplug the ac-adaptor and the battery and it closes, but when i power it on again I get a black screen..
What should i do? I read something about phoenix crisis disk with which i can get the bios work again.

After hours of forum-searching i give it a try:
First, i dont have usb floppy so wincris.exe didn't help me. Is possible this to be done with usb stick? and if yes what usb port should i use?

I tried an application which i found on a forum called 268076.exe with which i put inside a fat16 formatted usb drive 3 files. After i didnt know where to find my bios. I went to toshiba site and download BIOS update and unzip it and use the skaa240a.rom file. I rename it to BIOS.WPH and pull the stick into laptop. Followed some instructions to put laptop in crisis recovery mode (Fn+b during powering it on, i think i did it because no led light up) and let it about 20 minutes. Nothing happens.

Also using hp usb disk storage format tool create another bootable usb with the same bios but i get nothing again. i used this guide Bios Recovery Procedures .

Any help please ??
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hwinfo

HWINFO(8)						       System configuration							 HWINFO(8)

NAME

       hwinfo - probe for hardware

SYNOPSIS

       hwinfo [ OPTIONS ]

DESCRIPTION

       hwinfo  is  used  to probe for the hardware present in the system. It can be used to generate a system overview log which can be later used
       for support.

OPTIONS

       Note that running hwinfo without any options is roughly equivalent to 'hwinfo --all --log=-'.

       --<HARDWARE_ITEM>
	      This option can be given more than once.	Probe for a particular HARDWARE_ITEM. Available hardware items are:

	      all, arch, bios, block, bluetooth, braille, bridge, camera, cdrom, chipcard, cpu, disk, dsl, dvb, fingerprint, floppy,  framebuffer,
	      gfxcard,	hub,  ide, isapnp, isdn, joystick, keyboard, memory, modem, monitor, mouse, netcard, network, partition, pci, pcmcia, pcm-
	      cia-ctrl, pppoe, printer, redasd, reallyall, scanner, scsi, smp, sound, storage-ctrl, sys, tape, tv, uml, usb, usb-ctrl, vbe,  wlan,
	      xen, zip

       --short
	      Show only a summary. Use this option in addition to a hardware probing option.

       --listmd
	      Normally hwinfo does not report RAID devices. Add this option to see them.

       --only DEVNAME
	      This option can be given more than once. If you add this option, only data about devices with DEVNAME will be shown.

       --save-config SPEC
	      Store config for a particular device below /var/lib/hardware. SPEC can be a device name, an UDI, or 'all'. This option must be given
	      in addition to a hardware probing option.

       --show-config UDI
	      Show saved config data for a particular device.

       --map  If disk names have changed (e.g. after a kernel update) this prints a list of disk name mappings.  Note  that  you  must	have  used
	      --save-config at some point before for this can work.

       --debug N
	      Set debug level to N. The debug info is shown only in the log file.  If you specify a log file, the debug level is implicitly set to
	      a reasonable value.

       --verbose
	      Increase verbosity. Only together with --map.

       --log FILE
	      Write log info to FILE.

       --dump-db N
	      Dump hardware data base. N is either 0 for the external data base in /var/lib/hardware, or 1 for the internal data base.

       --version
	      Print libhd version.

       --help Print usage.

ENVIRONMENT

       hwprobe can hold a comma-separated list of probing flags preceded by '+' or '-' to be turned on or off. To get a complete list of supported
       flags, run 'hwinfo -all' (note: not '--all') and look at the top of the output.

       hwinfo also looks at /proc/cmdline for a hwprobe option.

EXAMPLES

       - show all disks
	      hwinfo --disk

       - just an overview
	      hwinfo --short --block

       - show a particular disk
	      hwinfo --disk --only /dev/sdb

       - save disk config state
	      hwinfo --disk --save-config=all

       - try 4 graphics card ports for monitor data (default: 3)
	      hwprobe=bios.ddc.ports=4 hwinfo --monitor

       - monitor detection runs the Video BIOS to get the monitor data; dump a complete BIOS code execution trace to the log
	      hwprobe=bios.ddc.ports=1,x86emu=trace:dump:trace.only=0:dump.only=0 hwinfo --monitor --log=foo

FILES

       /var/lib/hardware/hd.ids
	      External hardware data base (in readable text form). Try the --dump-db option to see the format.

       /var/lib/hardware/udi
	      Directory where persistent config data are stored (see --save-config option).

BUGS

       Not all hardware can be detected.

SEE ALSO

       More documentation in /usr/share/doc/packages/hwinfo.
       Source repository: git://git.opensuse.org/projects/hwinfo.git.

hwinfo								     June 2009								 HWINFO(8)