BEWARE: BIOS v1.04 HARD-LOCKUPS

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vpn-user · #1 Post by **vpn-user** » Mon May 26, 2008 3:58 pm

Installed BIOS v1.04 in the evening, just had a HARD-LOCKUP a few minutes from this posting. System totally freezed, no reaction, screen content frozen. Happened when starting a file transfer over WLAN, WLAN LED kept blinking.

I'll downgrade. Stay away from it.

vpn-user · #2 Post by **vpn-user** » Mon May 26, 2008 4:09 pm

Update: Perhaps it was caused by enabling the "optimize for performance" option of the SSD in Vista (Did that right after the BIOS Update). I'll keep you posted, I disabled this feature again, still on v1.04 for now.

#3 Post by **erik** » Mon May 26, 2008 5:44 pm

under server 2008 the "optimize for performance" radio button is permanently selected with "enable write caching on the disk" automatically checked. i upgraded to 1.04b a few days ago and haven't had any issues so far.

royhuang · #4 Post by **royhuang** » Wed May 28, 2008 1:53 pm

Has anyone tried the 1.04b update w/ Win XP Pro? If so, any problems?

stules · #5 Post by **stules** » Wed May 28, 2008 3:37 pm

Using XP, did the upgrade with no hassles a few days ago.
After purchase of the pre-installed XP, I did a clean install when I first recieved the laptop a few months ago. Zero issues so far.

royhuang · #6 Post by **royhuang** » Wed May 28, 2008 3:39 pm

Thanks stules!

vpn-user · #7 Post by **vpn-user** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 9:48 am

Without giving a reason, v1.04b has again (v1.03b also was) been pulled from the site and only v1.02a is shown again.

LENOVO: STOP THIS POLICY AND SHOW REASONS. This is completely unprofessional! What shall people do that already installed the update? What problems may arise?

Kamika007z · #8 Post by **Kamika007z** » Sun Jun 15, 2008 11:03 am

^^ agreed. This is seriously getting annoying Lenovo...

BEWARE: BIOS v1.04 HARD-LOCKUPS

BEWARE: BIOS v1.04 HARD-LOCKUPS

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