Zender or other Modded BIOS for T60 Please

[madicetea]

I really need a BIOS that is at the latest version that will unlock the whitelist for WiFi / WWAN cards and bonus points if it has an SLIC 2.1 table in it as well.

Thanks!

[RealBlackStuff]

https://www.datafilehost.com/d/b703c945
File turned out to be unreliable.
Instead go here: viewtopic.php?p=842178#p842178

[madicetea]

Thank you, I will give it a try.

The real results will come tonight and in a couple days - I'll be upgrading the RAM and WiFi card in a couple days (~all parts ordered~), and do a test install of Windows 7 Ultimate tonight to verify the effectiveness of the SLIC table.

For now, I will be running Fedora 27 Workstation :D (Because while 1.5GB RAM is sort of small, that is still on the large side for this machine.)

[madicetea]

Update: It works.

[DiagonalArg]

For anyone else, @madicetea was good enough to reup that BIOS, here: https://www.mediafire.com/file/vj7vdqd8 ... DOS%29.zip.

[zoltan87]

While Zender's BIOS works, I've found a more updated T60 BIOS from German ThinkWiki (actually that link was dead, but found a reupload of only the ROM file on the Korean ThinkWiki) and then repackaged it for use in a FreeDOS bootable USB drive (with most recent 16-bit DOS phlash executable).

PM me if anyone is interested.

They both remove whitelists and enable SLIC 2.1

Are there any advantages of this BIOS compared to Zender's version? Possible extra features? I thought for T60 Zender's BIOS was the only available modded one.

[RealBlackStuff]

Zender only unlocked the whitelist.

[kyletv05]

https://www.datafilehost.com/d/b703c945

Will this BIOS work for a 2623-DAU model? (15" 4:3). Is it safe to use on Windows 10 or should I flash it on Windows XP?

[kyletv05]

Update: It works.

So I downloaded that BIOS and made a bootable FreeDOS USB. The flashing tool is telling me "BIOS ROM file may be corrupt (Extended checksum not zero)"

Should I continue anyway?

[RealBlackStuff]

Dump that crappy colinzim file and go here: https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-T ... -p/4013624
Scroll down to the last post by J888www and get the modded BIOS from there (made by TTAV134).

[madicetea]

Dump that crappy colinzim file and go here: https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-T ... -p/4013624
Scroll down to the last post by J888www and get the modded BIOS from there (made by TTAV134).

It wasn't for a lack of trying, but I appreciate the updated link. I don't have a T60 on hand to test the J888www/TTAV134 BIOS, but I'm operating on the assumption it worked for kyle2000yt.

[cadillacmike68]

Dump that crappy colinzim file and go here: https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-T ... -p/4013624
Scroll down to the last post by J888www and get the modded BIOS from there (made by TTAV134).

Will this one also put the win7 SLIC 2.1 table in the BIOS?

[RealBlackStuff]

Yes, and it removes the wifi-whitelist as well.

[cadillacmike68]

Yes, and it removes the wifi-whitelist as well.

Thanks. Again. I'll save the file locally.

[DiagonalArg]

Any BIOS for a 15.4" T60p that'll do the same job? SILC 2.1 and (preferably, but not totally necessary) whitelist?

[RealBlackStuff]

This one for T60 WS models: viewtopic.php?t=128705

[cadillacmike68]

Dump that crappy colinzim file and go here: https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-T ... -p/4013624
Scroll down to the last post by J888www and get the modded BIOS from there (made by TTAV134).

It wasn't for a lack of trying, but I appreciate the updated link. I don't have a T60 on hand to test the J888www/TTAV134 BIOS, but I'm operating on the assumption it worked for kyle2000yt.

Is this one for the standard 4:3 ratio T60s or WS models? I just bought a 4:3 T60 from Jhem and would like to update the BIOS.

[DiagonalArg]

This one for T60 WS models: viewtopic.php?t=128705

@RBS - you're saying that works for the 15.4" Widescreen T60p in addition to the T60?

Edit: It LL it does!

(So, thank you!)

[RealBlackStuff]

It wasn't for a lack of trying, but I appreciate the updated link. I don't have a T60 on hand to test the J888www/TTAV134 BIOS, but I'm operating on the assumption it worked for kyle2000yt.

Is this one for the standard 4:3 ratio T60s or WS models? I just bought a 4:3 T60 from Jhem and would like to update the BIOS.

It's for all standard 4:3, non-WS T60/T60p.

[cadillacmike68]

Thanks. I'm thinking that I need to update the T60s BIOS to the latest Lenovo BIOS v2.27 first.

[TPFanatic]

Thank you for this. I have an old T60, updated it to official 2.27 then flashed the mod BIOS from CD. Then I encountered:

Initializing Intel(R) Boot Agent GE v1.2.31
PXE-E05: The LAN adapter's configuation is corrupted or has not been initialized. The Boot Agent cannot continue.

ERROR
Expansion ROM not initialized - PCI on Motherboard
Bus:00, Device: 00, Function: 00

I tried to follow various online solutions but they all refer to the deprecated IBAUTIL found in downloads of too-old versions of PREBOOT that Intel no longer provides.

I downloaded Version 22.10 of PREBOOT and copied the BootUtil directory into a Bootable DOS Flash Drive created with Rufus.

Then navigated in DOS to C:\BOOTUTIL\DOS and ran BOOTUTIL -DEFCFG -ALL.

This resolved the issue.