Zender's BIOS Advantages?

[Thinkpads4Life]

Hi. I went searching for a custom bios just curiously. What are the advantages/disadvantages of flashing a custom bios?

Quick Question this time! for quick questions!!!

[dr_st]

Advantages:

* Removes whitelist for miniPCIe cards (the laptop will accept any wireless LAN/WAN card).
* Adds SLIC 2.1 certificates for automatic activation of Windows 7 OEM editions
* Some custom BIOSes, not Zender's but Middleton's versions for T/R/X61 series remove certain chipset limitations and unlock better performance (SATA2 instead of SATA1)

Disadvantages:

None, really, except the risk in the flashing process itself (true for any BIOS, official or not) - if the flash somehow fails in the middle, your motherboard may be bricked.

[rkawakami]

Possible disadvantage: If, for any reason, you need to send the laptop in for factory warranty coverage, they might decline to fix the system if they detect a non-official BIOS. You could re-flash the system to an official version assuming it is able to function enough to do so.

[RMSMajestic]

Is there any T61 that's still under warranty?

[brchan]

No T61s are still under lenovo's warranty. The last T61s were made in late 2008, and even with the 5 year warranty would have expired by late 2013.

[RMSMajestic]

Sad T61s are really getting old...... But good in a way that I can now tweak my T61s in whatever way i want