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After you flashed the Middleton bios on your X300, did you notice anything odd, and do you regret that you did this?

How did you flash it, step by step please?

I don't have Windows 32 bit, I have one SSD with 64 bit Windows 7 Pro and my primary SSD drive with Linux Mint 20.2 64 bit.

Taking this in mind how would I flash the bios?

Jan

If you open the download, you will find READ_ME!!!.txt.
Did you?

To answer your first question, no I never noticed a problem on either the X300 I traveled with or X301s I later switched too nor could I regret it in any way. The X300 I flashed I think in Win7 64bit after I got it in 2014, later I bought a lot of X301s and flashed them all over a maybe two hour period. I installed Win7 32bit on one 1.8 drive, flashed, and then removed/reinstalled it in the others (you don't need to activate Win7 to do this). There may be way to do it outside of Windows, but I'm not even sure the x300 can boot from anything but the CD/DVD, HDD, and RJ45 port so I'd stick with Windows. For some reason Archive.org stores ISOs of O/S including older versions of Windows, I'd download one and run it in VirtualBox to ensure it even works then burn a DVD to install on your X300 to flash. Read the instructions, I think there is a prereq to be on a certain BIOS version before applying Middleton but its been so long I can't recall.

https://archive.org/details/20230422_20230422_1429

It must have been 32bit Windows 7, because I just read that Thinkwiki says it doesn't work with 64bit, for that you need to burn it to CD/DVD.

https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Middleton%27s_BIOS

Has anyone tried using a usb stick?