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Hi David,

Take a look at this Blog entry, I think it’ll enable you to troubleshoot the problem.

Hi and welcome :),

I had to flash a Toshiba laptop BIOS a few hours ago for a relative, he’d bought 7 (easier than cleaning out malware, he thought) and wiped Vista but could get no Wireless connection, even though everything was installed ok, turned on, etc. The updated flash I found was for Vista and included updated drivers for the WLAN card (which failed to install on 7). Anyway, I’m guessing there was also a fix in the BIOS because after a reboot, it now works as intended :).

You position is a little different, I think.

First, have you checked with other users of both models that 7 actually works 100% with the relevant BIOS update?

Second, have you checked the filenames of the different ‘boards BIOS updates – they may be identical.

Third, does the flashing tool employed by Sony use an auto BIOS backup feature (or can you run a manual backup) and is there a way of reflashing back to the original if anything goes wrong?

I’m sure that other’s will have more things to add, take your time with this decision, it could be expensive.

Good luck ^^.

Some testing results, GoogleDNS v. OpenDNS v. Level 3 and a comment from OpenDNS.

Disclaimer ;): I use OpenDNS because I believe it gives me better security, I’m also an online gamer so if my ping times drop too much, I may just try out GoogleDNS sometime.

My guess is that your desktop was unprotected during the update. The MSE installer is 4.3MB, way too small to contain any meaningful definitions. Sometime during install, it turns off Windows Defender too.

It may have worked differently had you installed it ‘live’, the installer would have prompted you to allow it to download the definitions, perhaps before the stage where it would turn off Defender (assuming that you have Defender).

Fail for MS here, I think; it takes too many clicks to find the manual updates page, if this was linked from the main download page, it would save many people a lot of hassle (especially as it looks like the auto-updater is a little buggy).

Hi Felini, we need the specific model/serial number for your Tosh, 1900-xxx?

I’ve had a quick look on the Tosh site, the older models of the 1900 are not going to run 7 very well; Max. RAM from 512-1024MB, hdd 20-40GB 4,200RPM; desktop P4 CPU, no USB2. I think that even if you succeed in setting up 7 correctly it will run very slow and very hot if it is this type of specification.

Perhaps using the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility would fix this issue.

Hi Bryan,

I’m running a stripped version of Build 7600 on a very slow 8GB SSD netbook,

I don’t have 2, 3 or 7.

I’m not sure it would be safe to remove 4 or 5.

1 and 6 would almost certainly be recreated each time you update the OS, IE, etc. or install a program and deleting 6 may break the repair and possibly uninstall options available from anything installed from .msi or even .msu (just guessing here though).

There are some (possibly eeeuser and/or aspireoneuser?) forums where this was an active topic just after the public Beta was released. Hardly worth the effort if, like me, you have an early Aspire One – the SSD is just too slow.