BuffetBarbarian
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Hello all,
I recently bought myself a new laptop from Best Buy, a Toshiba laptop with a quad-core processor, a Radeon R5 graphics chip... I was happy. I was especially impressed by the fact that the Best Buy website, and in-store associates assured me that the laptop could be upgraded from the initial 4GB of DDR3 RAM to a total of 16GB.
I didn't do enough research.
I found out yesterday that my laptop is a special model which has a BIOS lock, making it incapable of user upgrades. Upon adding a second RAM chip, the laptop refuses to boot - even to make it past the BIOS.
Enough backstory, though, on to my question:
Is there any way to flash the BIOS to a point where the laptop is capable of being upgraded? Or am I just screwed?
The model:
Toshiba Satellite C55D-B5206
Link to the Toshiba website here.
I recently bought myself a new laptop from Best Buy, a Toshiba laptop with a quad-core processor, a Radeon R5 graphics chip... I was happy. I was especially impressed by the fact that the Best Buy website, and in-store associates assured me that the laptop could be upgraded from the initial 4GB of DDR3 RAM to a total of 16GB.
I didn't do enough research.
I found out yesterday that my laptop is a special model which has a BIOS lock, making it incapable of user upgrades. Upon adding a second RAM chip, the laptop refuses to boot - even to make it past the BIOS.
Enough backstory, though, on to my question:
Is there any way to flash the BIOS to a point where the laptop is capable of being upgraded? Or am I just screwed?
The model:
Toshiba Satellite C55D-B5206
Link to the Toshiba website here.