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How to say if Middleton flash was successful
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2018 7:01 am
by thott
Hi, I flashed the middleton bios onto my X61t and the flasher said everything went fine, however I cannot tell if it was successful as the bios looks the same. Can someone tell me what's the best way to tell if the flash was successful?
Re: How to say if Middleton flash was successful
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2018 9:40 am
by jaspen-meyer
Put in an ssd and measure disk speed. Sata I max is about 135 MB/s. Sata II is about 270 MB/s.
Re: How to say if Middleton flash was successful
Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2018 9:57 am
by axur-delmeria
Put in a wifi card from a non-Thinkpad laptop. With the stock BIOS, you'll be greeted with the 1802 error and system halt. With Middleton BIOS successfully flashed, the laptop will continue booting.
Re: How to say if Middleton flash was successful
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2018 2:08 pm
by thott
So it sounds like, it's normal that version numbers and the like in the bios screen do not change?
Re: How to say if Middleton flash was successful
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2018 2:21 pm
by RealBlackStuff
Correct.
Wifi-whitelist removal, SATA-II speed for the main HD/SSD-drive and added Slic2.1 for Vista/W7 are the main 'background' improvements.
No visible changes anywhere.
Re: How to say if Middleton flash was successful
Posted: Thu May 24, 2018 1:37 pm
by FryPpy
Annecy wrote: ↑Tue May 22, 2018 11:35 pm
I'm wondering if ... maybe some/one "out there"
with (for sure) non-Middleton BIOS T61s
could see if HWiNFO32 (or 64) reports the main HDD @ 3gb/s or @ 1.5gb/s 
I have no unmodified T61's. But if i need to check BIOS for modification (without hardware tests) i use SLIC toolkit utility. Unmodded bios have slic v 2.0 (or no slick at all).
Modded BIOS have slic v 2.1. Or more presisely LENOVOTP-7U.