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Merom tested to run fine on T60P
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 4:08 am
by renhui
Good news for whoever wants to upgrade to core 2 duo.
According to thinkpad.cn, a China-based thinkpad forum, the latest Merom chip (T7400) has been tested to run without problem on a thinkpad T60P using an unreleased version of BIOS.
http://www.thinkpad.cn/news/show.php?id=395
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 5:35 am
by DAH
How so? This suggest to me that it will not run on the current BIOS, and how really likely is IBM to update this unreleased BIOS to English and release it? Sure it may happen, but my guess is I'll never see this BIOS on my T60p.
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 1:10 pm
by disturbedsaint
AFAIK they used the 2.00b(eta) BIOS, which can be found here:
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... etb5us.iso
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 3:41 pm
by christopher_wolf
This is also for the Napa Merom as well. It might take a few more changes to make it work with the Santa Rosa release though...which would *really*be good.
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:36 pm
by seeplus
This is great news! Did anyone snag that file while it was still up? (that link doesn't work for me)
I had been waiting to see what pans out with the new t60's, but I'm going to snag an a t60p w/ ips while I still can- (resellers have them..)
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:58 pm
by DAH
That link seems to be bad, you might try this one;
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... STA#driver you'll need to scroll up to find it.
Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:42 pm
by Badger
the 2.00b bios is the Vista bios, which you can find a link to in a sticky in the "Vista OS" forum. I know this because I have it installed right now
XP runs fine with it, too.