It is likely you are using the wrong bios upgrade for your machine. I see 2 
different 3000 on the Canadian site.
Terry

"macjenna" <mcdb@sasktel.net> wrote in message 
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> Anyone successfully upgraded bios on this model, Mine tries a partial then 
> hangs at checking flash memory, no damage is done to the existing bios and 
> the system reboots fine but its annoying, don't seem to get by it. Using 
> the auto phlash file downloaded from Toshiba.
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