Thinkpads Forum

Hi - I recently (foolishly) upgraded the BIOS directly from Windows 7. Needless to say it stalled half way through and now I have a bricked T60.

I have read somewhere here (Uncle Joe ?) that people have had some success with the Phoenix Crisis Recovery, and I have also read on other forums that this functionality is not available on Thinkpads. Lenovo are refusing to help as they say "no-one told me to do this so I am on my own". I must have done this on over 100 laptops and this is the first time it has gone wrong - this is the first one running Windows 7 !!

The screen is blank, but the LEDs are on and the Caps lock/Num lock come on when I power up. I tried the Fn+F combination with a USB floppy (although the BIOS is 2 megs), but the floppy does not spin up. The CD spins up so I created a recovery boot CD containing PHLASH16.exe and a Bios which I downloaded from another site to see if this can be blind flashed.

Unfortunately Nothing.

If anyone has got any actual experience with the Bios Boot block recovery method (Fn+F) I would be interested to hear, and if anyone categorically knows that it does not work, I would be interested to hear as well, then at least I can set about an alternative strategy.

Thanks for your help
Steve Bicknell.

I tried lots of things and I'm pretty sure it doesn't work. I have been looking to develop a technique to replace the data from a flash writer, but you cannot write an entire image, because the chip is married to other parts of the motherboard. There is stuff in your bios chip that is different from every other one. If you write the whole image, you get 4 sets of 4 beeps. What is the FRU? If it is one where I have one in stock, I would give you a good price with a trade-in. I need one in that condition to play with. pm if interested

Hi - I'll let you know regarding the trade. I'm still considering stuff, including using a SPI programmer. Maybe I'm being too ambitious.

BTW: How much for a mo/bo trade in ?

Cheers
SB
PS: I don't have PM

If you look at the top of each page, there is a 0 new messages tag (or 1 new msg, etc.)
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And to PM someone else (like richk) go to one of his posts and click on the PM button there, to write him a msg.

Thanks re: info on PM.