Hello Thinkpad community, I have recently purchased a 600e and I have been trying to collect as much info on upgrade paths but I still have a few concerns on my mind.
1. Is it possible to upgrade the bios without a cd or floppy? I read up that you can use the 600X diskless utility which runs in windows to flash a 600e bios no problem. Can anyone confirm this? I also have a dead battery and because of that I may have to do some extra work.
2. Do you need an updated bios to for the system to see a pentium 3? (500mhz specifically) my bios version seems to date to November of 1999 if that helps.
3. Is there a 10GB HDD limit? Thinking of doing an msata to ide conversion but any ssds smaller than 8gb cost more than larger ones which is obviously not feasible.
Many Thanks
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Concerns about the 600E
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Re: Concerns about the 600E
The only thing I can offer is that I have for many years run a 60GB HDD in my 600 (no E, no X). If I can do that, I'm sure a 600E can.
The important thing is all setup of the drive with it directly installed in the laptop - the "initialize" function in BIOS, then all partitioning. That's all I had to do back in 2004 with my 600.
The important thing is all setup of the drive with it directly installed in the laptop - the "initialize" function in BIOS, then all partitioning. That's all I had to do back in 2004 with my 600.
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