Flashing an X61s with Middleton bios

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JPOESQ · #1 Post by **JPOESQ** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 8:04 pm

I apologize if this has already been asked and answered, but I had some time on my hands today and decided to flash my X61s by booting from a CD. Each time that I boot, the flash process fails and tells me that I need to disable bitlocker. However, I decrypted the drive before flashing. Any ideas?

ajkula66 · #2 Post by **ajkula66** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 9:27 pm

Just pull the hard drive out altogether and call it a day...

Good luck.

Hans Gruber · #3 Post by **Hans Gruber** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 9:41 pm

Make sure flash over lan is enabled in the network section of you bios as well.

JPOESQ · #4 Post by **JPOESQ** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 10:44 pm

ajkula66 wrote:Just pull the hard drive out altogether and call it a day...

Good luck.

I had just about come to that conclusion, and will give that a try.

Hans Gruber wrote:Make sure flash over lan is enabled in the network section of you bios as well.

Yes, I found that out when the machine threw an error telling me that flash over lan was not enabled.

Thank you gentlemen. I will try again when I return to the office on Monday.

JPOESQ · #5 Post by **JPOESQ** » Mon Jul 20, 2015 9:06 pm

As it turns out, pulling the SSD didn't make any difference and the flash software still gave a bitlocker error message and failed. The solution was to go into the bios and completely purge the security chip.

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