600E BIOS files

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600E BIOS files

#1 Post by nitro2k01 » Thu May 31, 2007 2:54 am

I've got a new 600E with the inet25ww version of ez-setup. Now I'm trying to move a big HD to it (80 GB) and I get a read error. Even if the obvious difference between the machine's is that the newly bought is inetww25 and the original one is inet36ww, I wonder is there any other (Unfixable) reason why the new one wouldn't accept the disc?
(I've tried inserting the 80 GB HD into the original TP and I also tried inserting a small HD to the new one, and both things worked)
Silly question, as this really should be the problem, but I don't really find anything about it in the changelog, and I've learnt to never take anything for granted. If it doesn't work when I've upgraded ez-setup, I'll be mighty angry.

My next question is about the BIOS files. I don't have access to a floppy drive atm, is the floppy image for spsdin36.exe available for download somewhere? (Alternatively does anyone know a method to extract it from the exe without a flopppy drive?)

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... 6HLKQ.html
TP 600E:: Type: 2645 (Defunct. Description left for posterity.)
CPU: 650*1.08=702 MHz PIII with SpeedStep disabled. (Used to be 400 MHz PII)
RAM: 288 MB
HDD: 80 GB non-IBM
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TP T60:: Type: 2008-CTO
CPU: Core Duo T2400 1.83 GHz
RAM: 3 GB
HDD: WD Scorpio Black 320GB 7200 RPM

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#2 Post by tarvoke » Thu May 31, 2007 9:45 am

I thought ibm did provide plain zip files of bios (which always pleasantly surprised me) but if not you could always use e.g. http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html vfd to fake a floppy drive and thereyby derive the necessary files... this is what I do (and then using ultraiso/etc. put said necessary files on a bootable cd e.g. http://www.bootdisk.com/plan10/flashcd.zip where they will show up under the R: drive ....)

cf
http://www.bootdisk.com/txtfiles/flashcd.txt
go away.

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