Thanks fjavi, very kind to reply.
I have no idea if it's AMI or AWARD, no matter how much I search the specs on the internet, I can't find that information. I've taken apart the RAM slot trying to find a way to get to the battery, but it's not there. I've seen on YouTube that in some Toshiba laptop models, using a jumper, you can reset the BIOS, but the Satellite A550 doesn't have that option or at least I can't find it.
My next option is to take apart the whole laptop and pray to God that the battery isn't soldered to the motherboard. I haven't tried the USB floppy option, but it makes me very doubt its functionality if it doesn't work with a USB BOOT or a DVD BOOT.
Thanks.
You should look at the laptop underneath the label and put the exact model, even the serial number, as I read that it has a G45 chip and according to the manufacturer, you could recover it with the driver CD.
The battery won't do much if the BIOS is corrupted, the best thing is to get the model that says or the reference number to see if we can see what BIOS it has, check if it's this one.
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