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Bios upgrade on T60p widescreen
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2010 8:44 pm
by TOMSrolla
I have a T60p widescreen running Win 7 64-bit and still using the old bios Version 7IET19WW (1.00), is it advisable to upgrade it to the latest version Version 7IET37WW (1.18)
I have a seagate 250Gb 5400 as main HDD and 2nd HDD ,a seagate 500GB 7200 on an ultra slim drive bay (jumpered pin 1and 2) and sometimes OS cannot find bootdrive on cold boot, had to reboot Win 7 and sometimes BSOD on crash dumps while browsing using Firefox 3.6
Re: Bios upgrade on T60p widescreen
Posted: Tue Nov 16, 2010 11:17 pm
by richk
My suggestion is yes, but I would do it from a bootable CD (from iso image) rather than from inside windows 7.
Re: Bios upgrade on T60p widescreen
Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2010 12:47 am
by TOMSrolla
richk wrote:My suggestion is yes, but I would do it from a bootable CD (from iso image) rather than from inside windows 7.
I'm a newbie in tinkering the Bios setup.... How do I go about it
Re: Bios upgrade on T60p widescreen
Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2010 11:14 am
by richk
I will try to resist the temptation to say that running 64-bit windows 7 on a T60 is not the best choice for a newbie. You need to download the .iso file from this page:
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-67020
You will need some kind of software to open the file and burn a cd, then boot from the cd and follow the instructions. Perhaps you know someone who can help.
Re: Bios upgrade on T60p widescreen
Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2010 4:03 pm
by sysiphus
richk wrote:I will try to resist the temptation to say that running 64-bit windows 7 on a T60 is not the best choice for a newbie. You need to download the .iso file from this page:
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-67020
You will need some kind of software to open the file and burn a cd, then boot from the cd and follow the instructions. Perhaps you know someone who can help.
If he's already got Win7 installed, it's no problem to burn an .iso--Win7 has a built-in utility that will launch by default when you double-click an .iso (unless you've changed the default file association).
Re: Bios upgrade on T60p widescreen
Posted: Wed Nov 17, 2010 4:50 pm
by richk
I was not sure he had it running
Re: Bios upgrade on T60p widescreen
Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2010 12:09 am
by TOMSrolla
richk wrote:I was not sure he had it running
Its running on Win 7 64-bits for 5 months now .... but sometimes experiencing BSOD on crash dumps and I/O errors on disc. I'm using the video drivers for ATI FireGL v5250 from win 7 updates.
Re: Bios upgrade on T60p widescreen
Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2010 2:30 am
by TOMSrolla
richk wrote:My suggestion is yes, but I would do it from a bootable CD (from iso image) rather than from inside windows 7.
Thank you so much for the info and guidance.......
I was able to download the bootable Iso image for Win 7 64-bit from Lenovo support site for T60p Widescreen and burn a bootable CD using ImageBurn and use it to boot outside Win 7 and upgrade the Bios to its latest version .
My heart was thumping hard through out the whole process