Upgrade to Firmware 1.10 and the machine is 100% DEAD !!!!!

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brosen · #1 Post by **brosen** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 8:51 pm

Amazing no ligths, nothing, it does not turn on at all, after the normal BIOS upgrade process, the machine rebooted and got stuck in the startup screen (Lenovo, Thinkpad and Intel Logos) and DEAD, I had to get out the battery to turn it off, I called IBM and they are sending me a BOX, bad luck for me, any experience with 1.10 BIOS ?, thanks

tselling · #2 Post by **tselling** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 12:12 am

I just installed bios 1.10 and it booted fine. You did wait for the bios upgrade program to tell you to reboot right? I noticed it flashed twice... probably once for the embedded controller and once for the bios before I got the prompt to reboot.

mattbiernat · #3 Post by **mattbiernat** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 1:09 am

brosen wrote:Amazing no ligths, nothing, it does not turn on at all, after the normal BIOS upgrade process, the machine rebooted and got stuck in the startup screen (Lenovo, Thinkpad and Intel Logos) and DEAD, I had to get out the battery to turn it off, I called IBM and they are sending me a BOX, bad luck for me, any experience with 1.10 BIOS ?, thanks

didnt someone here already have the same problem? they interruped installation of bios and their motherboard ended up getting fried.

smvp6459 · #4 Post by **smvp6459** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:05 pm

tselling wrote:I just installed bios 1.10 and it booted fine. You did wait for the bios upgrade program to tell you to reboot right? I noticed it flashed twice... probably once for the embedded controller and once for the bios before I got the prompt to reboot.

No problems here either. I've also read you need to disable any BIOS passwords you have before flashing...to be safe I pretty much disable all of the security features before I flash.

gunston · #5 Post by **gunston** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 8:45 am

why bother to upgrade/flash your BIOS settings since it is working fine?
i am still using the origianal 1.04 BIOS version,

ozmann · #6 Post by **ozmann** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 9:55 am

gunston wrote:why bother to upgrade/flash your BIOS settings since it is working fine?
i am still using the original 1.04 BIOS version,

1.10 has a CPU microcode update that may be related to previous threads about running the 2 cores more efficiently. I've no idea if this is useful or necessary for most users.

gunston · #7 Post by **gunston** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 5:51 pm

yes, you said it,
we have no idea how much it may do for our Duo core processor

btorbik · #8 Post by **btorbik** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 6:03 pm

I installed 1.10 last night in under 5 minutes, including the required reboot. No problems, no worries.

This release includes a microcode upgrade from Intel for the Core Duo. No idea yet as of yet what improvements have been made, but nothing appears to have been damaged by it.

gunston · #9 Post by **gunston** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 8:17 am

what about the battery consumption?
how long it can last, one thread posted in the forum here stated that higher BIOS version did consume more power than the 1.04 BIOS version

jamess · #10 Post by **jamess** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 8:30 am

I compared my x60s 1.04 with 1.09 and measured a difference of only a few minutes with same settings (wireless on, thinkpad default scheme). I too would like to know however, what's it like with 1.10.

Upgrade to Firmware 1.10 and the machine is 100% DEAD !!!!!

Upgrade to Firmware 1.10 and the machine is 100% DEAD !!!!!

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