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Upgrade to Firmware 1.10 and the machine is 100% DEAD !!!!!
Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 8:51 pm
by brosen
Amazing no ligths, nothing, it does not turn on at all, after the normal BIOS upgrade process, the machine rebooted and got stuck in the startup screen (Lenovo, Thinkpad and Intel Logos) and DEAD, I had to get out the battery to turn it off, I called IBM and they are sending me a BOX, bad luck for me, any experience with 1.10 BIOS ?, thanks
Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 12:12 am
by tselling
I just installed bios 1.10 and it booted fine. You did wait for the bios upgrade program to tell you to reboot right? I noticed it flashed twice... probably once for the embedded controller and once for the bios before I got the prompt to reboot.
Re: Upgrade to Firmware 1.10 and the machine is 100% DEAD !!
Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 1:09 am
by mattbiernat
brosen wrote:Amazing no ligths, nothing, it does not turn on at all, after the normal BIOS upgrade process, the machine rebooted and got stuck in the startup screen (Lenovo, Thinkpad and Intel Logos) and DEAD, I had to get out the battery to turn it off, I called IBM and they are sending me a BOX, bad luck for me, any experience with 1.10 BIOS ?, thanks
didnt someone here already have the same problem? they interruped installation of bios and their motherboard ended up getting fried.
Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:05 pm
by smvp6459
tselling wrote:I just installed bios 1.10 and it booted fine. You did wait for the bios upgrade program to tell you to reboot right? I noticed it flashed twice... probably once for the embedded controller and once for the bios before I got the prompt to reboot.
No problems here either. I've also read you need to disable any BIOS passwords you have before flashing...to be safe I pretty much disable all of the security features before I flash.
Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 8:45 am
by gunston
why bother to upgrade/flash your BIOS settings since it is working fine?
i am still using the origianal 1.04 BIOS version,
Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 9:55 am
by ozmann
gunston wrote:why bother to upgrade/flash your BIOS settings since it is working fine?
i am still using the original 1.04 BIOS version,
1.10 has a CPU microcode update that may be related to previous threads about running the 2 cores more efficiently. I've no idea if this is useful or necessary for most users.
Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 5:51 pm
by gunston
yes, you said it,
we have no idea how much it may do for our Duo core processor
BIOS 1.10 upgrade
Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 6:03 pm
by btorbik
I installed 1.10 last night in under 5 minutes, including the required reboot. No problems, no worries.
This release includes a microcode upgrade from Intel for the Core Duo. No idea yet as of yet what improvements have been made, but nothing appears to have been damaged by it.
Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 8:17 am
by gunston
what about the battery consumption?
how long it can last, one thread posted in the forum here stated that higher BIOS version did consume more power than the 1.04 BIOS version
Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 8:30 am
by jamess
I compared my x60s 1.04 with 1.09 and measured a difference of only a few minutes with same settings (wireless on, thinkpad default scheme). I too would like to know however, what's it like with 1.10.