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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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i8kctl

i8kctl(1)							     Utilities								 i8kctl(1)

NAME

       I8kctl, i8kfan - Utility to access SMM BIOS on Dell Inspiron laptops

SYNTAX

       i8kctl [<command> [<args>]]
       i8kfan [<left> [<right>]]

DESCRIPTION

       The i8kctl utility provides a command-line interface to the i8k kernel driver for Dell Inspiron laptops. When invoked without arguments the
       program reports the same information which can be read from the /proc/i8k file:

	      1.  i8k format version
	      2.  bios version
	      3.  machine id
	      4.  cpu temperature
	      5.  left fan status
	      6.  right fan status
	      7.  left fan speed
	      8.  right fan speed
	      9.  ac power status
	      10. fn buttons status

       The optional command argument can be used to select only one of the above items. Command can be: version, bios, id, temp,  fan,	speed,	ac
       and fn. Examples:

	      $ i8kctl
	      1.0 A17 B5W123K 52 2 1 8040 6420 1 2

	      $ i8kctl temp
	      52

	      $ i8kctl fan
	      2 1

       The fan command can accept two optional parameters which specify the new fan state for left and right fans. The state parameter can be:

	      0  turn the fan off
	      1  set low speed
	      2  set high speed
	      -  don't change the state of this fan

       For example the command:

	      $ i8kctl fan - 2

       sets  the  right  fan  to high speed and leaves the left unchanged.  It should be noted that if the i8kmon(1) daemon is used to control the
       fans, setting the speed with i8kfan is pointless since the daemon will override the speed with its own value.

       Invoking i8kctl as i8kfan is the same as invoking the program with the fan option:

	      $ i8kctl fan 1 2
	      1 2

	      $ i8kfan 1 2
	      1 2

FILES

       /proc/i8k

AUTHORS

       Massimo Dal Zotto <dz@debian.org>

COPYRIGHT

       i8kctl and all the i8kutils programs , scripts and other files are distributed under the GNU  General  Public  License  (GPL).	On  Debian
       GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'.

SEE ALSO

       i8kmon(1), i8kbuttons(1)

Massimo Dal Zotto						   18 March 2002							 i8kctl(1)