Thinkpad 240x ACPI/Boot question

[identi]

Hi

First post here. Sorry if I've posted in the wrong place.

I've posted on a couple of forums trying to find help with a Thinkpad 240x I've just been given. Now that I've found a forum specifically for thinkpads, maybe you guys could help...


I've been trying to set up an IBM Thinkpad 240X running 2000 Pro. It's never been connected to the internet so the first thing I did after the firewall was to let Windows Update do its stuff.

When I rebooted I got the following message:

The BIOS in this system is not fully ACPI compliant. Please contact your system vendor or visit http://www.hardware-update.com for an updated BIOS. If you are unable to obtain an updated BIOS or the latest BIOS supplied by your vendor is not ACPI compliant, you can turn off ACPI mode during text mode setup. To do this, simply press the F7 key when you are prompted to install storage drivers. The system will not notify you that the F7 key was pressed - it will silently disable ACPI and allow you to continue your instillation.

and after that the laptop won't continue. I can still get into safe mode though.

I updated to the latest bios available (version 1.09 - 1.03.23) but that didn't help.


This didn't concern me at first because I was planning to buy an external CD drive and I have the 2000 disks.

But looking at IBM's Recovery diskette page for the 240X, it only mentions creating recovery floppies for use with specific IBM CD drives.

So I'm not sure what to try next?
Will a more recent IBM USB drive do?

Any ideas how to breath life into this old laptop greatly appreciated

[identi]

Yeay!!

Found this thread and it worked!!!


Very Happy

[PALADIN]

I ran into this problem after downloading all the updates. They were fine until I installed that last driver(display driver). So I restarted in safe mode and uninstalled it and acquired the display driver from IBM's Web site which will work fine.