Greetings All, Is it possible for the BIOS to report the wrong CPU speed? I have a 600X 2645-5FU that i got last year on eBay. The BIOS reports a PIII 650, as the IBM site says is correct for this machine. But all the CPU detection programs say it is a PIII 500. Which could be right? Could the BIOS ...

The yellow battery is the "standby battery" and requires removal of the keyboard. The "backup battery" is silver colored about the size of a quarter and is located under the DIMM cover. Removing it my clear what you've messed up but I doubt it as using the initialize feature should have restored th...

If you can still get into your BIOS/EZ-Config by pressing and holding F1 on bootup, then I think you can use the "Initialize" function and this will reset the BIOS to its default/factory settings (I think!). Phil. No, that doesn't help. Does anyone know a way to get the CMOS settings back to defaul...

OK people, I have a TP770 in which i swapped out the P200MMX and put iin a PII 266. I got tired of the error code 192 and needing to hit esc and F1 to get past it. I went into the config bios and did a Ctrl-D and possibly messed up a value on the first page. Now when i turn it on and get error 192,...

Greetings ThinkPad experts, I changed out the PI 200MMX CPU card in my 9548-40U TP770, and replaced it with a PII 266. I get the expected error code 192 and get by it with the F1 and Esc key sequence. My question is now how do i get into the BIOS setup config? Holding down the F1 key while turning o...

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Hey, this really worked!! Finally somebody figured it out... It worked fine.

Thanks for the tip...

Joe

Greetings, O.K., has anyone done a bios upgrade disk hack (so there is no need for a fully charged battery) for a TP770 that has worked? here are the files present on the upgrade floppy: <DIR> . <DIR> .. $0031000.fl1 $0031000.fl2 COMMAND.COM CONFIG.SYS FLASH2.EXE PROD.DA2 PROD.DAT UPDTFLSH.EXE updtr...