Possible Solution for Toshiba Laptop Monitor Blackouts
June 2, 2008 by Jason Bean
Filed under Computers
I may have a solution for everyone experiencing the random screen blackouts on Toshiba laptops. After seeing this comment by Gwendolyn, I decided to go visit the Toshiba website again and see if there was an available update for my wife’s computer. She’s got a Toshiba Satellite A215-S7437 and there indeed was the update as shown in the graphic above.
There’s a BIOS version update of 1.70 available for her machine with the following feature notes specified:
Version 1.70 – 2008-02-28
Added support for Windows Vista SP1.
A change was made to an AMD SB600 power management register.
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