Do I have A Merom or Penrym board?

[1woody]

Can someone please tell me if I have A Merom system board, or A Penryn capable system board? I have A Lenovo Think Pad T61 manufacture date 03/2008. Product ID:76641KU. FRU:41W1489. I'm wanting to upgrade my factory T7500 CPU to A T7800 if I have A Merom, or A T9500 if I have A Penrym.

[RealBlackStuff]

Yours is a Merom mobo.
But with Middleton's BIOS you can make it Penryn-capable: http://ali.dj/blog/sata-ii-support-for- ... 61-x61-r61
Get the first 2.29-1.08 on that link.
Then get a (cheaper) T9300, best bang for your buck.

[1woody]

Yours is a Merom mobo.
But with Middleton's BIOS you can make it Penryn-capable: http://ali.dj/blog/sata-ii-support-for- ... 61-x61-r61
Get the first 2.29-1.08 on that link.
Then get a (cheaper) T9300, best bang for your buck.

Thanks for your help and info. I clicked on the link you provided, and it said if I am running 64 bit Windows that I have to download and burn to CD/DVD disc, and boot from that disc. I burned the download to disc, and laptop will not boot from the disc? Not sure what to do now.

[RealBlackStuff]

You need to extract the 7luj27uc.iso file from the download, then use a program like ImgBurn from http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=Download to burn that .ISO on a CD/DVD
The disk will be self-booting.
And you also need a charger plus a working battery when installing this BIOS.

[1woody]

You need to extract the 7luj27uc.iso file from the download, then use a program like ImgBurn from http://www.imgburn.com/index.php?act=Download to burn that .ISO on a CD/DVD
The disk will be self-booting.
And you also need a charger plus a working battery when installing this BIOS.

I tried extracting the file with free file viewer 2014, and burn to dvd disc with imgburn and the T61 won't boot from the disc. I must have did something wrong. I wish I could just buy A disc with Middleton's BIOS. Anyhow my CPU got delivered today. I installed it in my T61, and all is well except for the thermal message at start up. For now I'm pressing esc button.

[RealBlackStuff]

Get 7-zip from http://www.7-zip.org/download.html to properly extract the .ISO file.
And put the old Merom-CPU back before you do the M-BIOS upgrade.

[1woody]

Get 7-zip from http://www.7-zip.org/download.html to properly extract the .ISO file.
And put the old Merom-CPU back before you do the M-BIOS upgrade.

I just can't get A bootable disc made... I've burned several discs following your advice using the software you mentioned. I searched on Google in hopes I could find someone who sold middletons bios bootable dvd disc, but found nothing. I do have an idea though, but it may be A bad one, I could wipe my hard drive then install windows 7 32 bit so the download would go straight to my bios like the middletons bios website says. However I will need to download and install drivers from Lenovo site, but I have A question about that, will the drivers especially the bios update drivers ruin my middletons bios? I also want to upgrade to windows 10 before the free upgrade expires in A few days and therefore the 32 bit will be changed to 64 bit. I apologize for bothering you so much

[Cigarguy]

It's not that difficult. Bootable CD is easiest and safest IMO.

1) Download Middleton's BIOS (http://t61.wikispaces.com/). It will be in *.rar format.
2) Download and install 7-Zip. Right click on the file above. 3rd item down is 7-Zip click on "Extract Here". After doing this there will be two folders. Title of each folder is self explanatory. I prefer regular "BIOS update".
3) Download and install ImgBurn. Inside the "BIOS update" folder right click on "7luj27uc.iso" image file. Click on "Burn image disc" to burn *.iso to cd. This cd is bootable. You can't copy and paste.
4) Once complete insert CD into machine. Hit F12 at startup and choose the cd drive as boot drive. Follow onscreen instructions to flash BIOS. Done, easy peasy.

The concept is the same/similar for most any BIOS/firmware flash. It matters not if the medium is CD or USB, the concept is the same. Learn how to do it once and apply it many times.

[1woody]

It's not that difficult. Bootable CD is easiest and safest IMO.

1) Download Middleton's BIOS (http://t61.wikispaces.com/). It will be in *.rar format.
2) Download and install 7-Zip. Right click on the file above. 3rd item down is 7-Zip click on "Extract Here". After doing this there will be two folders. Title of each folder is self explanatory. I prefer regular "BIOS update".
3) Download and install ImgBurn. Inside the "BIOS update" folder right click on "7luj27uc.iso" image file. Click on "Burn image disc" to burn *.iso to cd. This cd is bootable. You can't copy and paste.
4) Once complete insert CD into machine. Hit F12 at startup and choose the cd drive as boot drive. Follow onscreen instructions to flash BIOS. Done, easy peasy.

The concept is the same/similar for most any BIOS/firmware flash. It matters not if the medium is CD or USB, the concept is the same. Learn how to do it once and apply it many times.

Thank you for giving me the step by step instructions, I would have never figured it out on my own... I followed your instructions, and I created A bootable Middleton's BIOS. updated my bios. All went well and no thermal code anymore.