Thanks SKJROD, that link was interesting ! Very crooked ! Now I wonder
if we all have that Phoenix/Microsoft BIOS ? Clearly whatever BIOS we
have is rejecting our OS installations. The warning shouldn't say
"damaged", it should say "BIOS has rejected your non-Toshiba/Microsoft
OS"
My experience still makes me think Toshiba is at the root of the
problem. They chose the BIOS. My Toshiba 3500 came to me used with WINXP
TABLET installed and a valid Microsoft COA sticker on the bottom -
however it was giving me a warning that activation was expiring in 1
day. I called Microsoft immediately and they began working on it. At
the end of a long battle they finally said they can't help, that I need
the Toshiba-specific version of WINXP TABLET, that I need the "original
Toshiba WINXP" disks to stop the deactivation. I didn't have them.
They deactivated my computer. So I turned to Toshiba and they wouldn't
help either ("We no longer support this machine"). So I had this nice
clean Toshiba 3500 without a functioning OS (only booting in safe mode
gave me some slight access but most functions were blocked). So,
logically, I switched to Linux, first KUBUNTU, then UBUNTU - then got
my "damaged" BIOS.
At the very least Toshiba owes us a BIOS fix and a fresh install of XP
- if the BIOS truly is incapable of accepting Ubuntu. They should have
put a huge WARNING label on the machines !
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