Thinkpad 600 / update BIOS without a floppy drive?

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cyberfilmmaker · #1 Post by **cyberfilmmaker** » Sat May 14, 2005 12:43 pm

Hi ,

I want to update the BIOS of my THINKPAD 600.

At the present it is BIOS version IBET27WW (17 DEC 1998)

and I want to gor for Version: 1.22 IBET54WW (12 OCT 2001)

I found all the files on the IBM website:
http://www-3.ibm.com/pc/support/site.ws ... SHY-3VRJPK

Can I do this without a floppy drive?

Many thanks,
CYBERFILMMAKER

wireless4laptop · #2 Post by **wireless4laptop** » Sat May 14, 2005 10:29 pm

you can make a bootable cd to finish upgrading.

cyberfilmmaker · #3 Post by **cyberfilmmaker** » Sun May 15, 2005 4:57 am

Many thanks wireless4laptop. This sounds great (I had no idea it is possible).

Regards.
CF

warwound · #4 Post by **warwound** » Sun May 15, 2005 4:35 pm

I recently upgraded the BIOS on a 600E to the latest version using a CDR.

I made the original floppy update disc.
Then made a bootable CDR with Nero.
I pointed Nero to my floppy and it copied the floppy's boot data for the new CDR.
I then drag and dropped all the actual files on the floppy to the new CDR compilation and burnt the CDR.

It worked perfectly - booted from CDR and updated the BIOS no probs.

warwound.

cyberfilmmaker · #5 Post by **cyberfilmmaker** » Sun May 15, 2005 5:43 pm

Hi Warwound,

many thanks for the detailed simple to follow step by step description.

It sounds great.

All the best,
CF