Bad Checksum (CMOS) BIOS Error after BIOS update
Hi all. I'm looking for some insight from you on this. I have a Toshiba A215-S6804 Satellite with Vista Home Premium SP1. I had read that this model had a history of "black screen/freezes" and that Toshiba had issued a BIOS update to resolve the issue. Well, I recently experienced the freeze up, so I decided I had better update the BIOS. I downloaded and ran their update - everything flashed properly (or so it seemed), and the program had told me to expect the computer to reboot after the flash was complete. Upon beginning the reboot I got an error:
0251: System CMOS Checksum bad - default configuration used
Press <F1> to load defaults, <F2> to setup
When I checked their "ask iris" database on their support site, it mentioned something about "Bad RTC (Real Time Clock) battery, bad Checksum (CMOS)". Check system, then press <F1>". Well, this is not the error I had. So I called Toshiba tech support and the guy told me to press F1....then he started reading off the RTC/bad checksum info from the ask iris web link - I said "That's NOT the error I got!", but had already hit F1 per his instruction.
My questions are, what did I do by pressing F1? What was the actual problem? Did I mess anything up because the guy didn't listen to me properly and I pushed F1 before I realized he wasn't answering the correct question? Should I have pressed F2 instead and set something up? I'm pretty lost when it comes to this kind of stuff, so any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks!
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