New System Board (T43p) - now System Update will not work?

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eleonas · #1 Post by **eleonas** » Sun May 13, 2007 3:42 pm

Ok - I had USB problems (and some random freezing problems). Brought my T43p (2668-G7U) in for warranty work and they replaced the system board. Everything seems to work fine now.

HOWEVER: It looks like the system board does not have the 2668-G7U ID setup or something. When I run Thinkvantage System Update I get Error 75 - and it does not identify my system correct (it is garbaled).

Any ideas how I can fix this?

Thanks!

#2 Post by **richk** » Sun May 13, 2007 6:02 pm

They are supposed to set the model number and serial number with the maintenance disk. If they didn't do that and it was warranty work, you should send it back.

cmarti · #3 Post by **cmarti** » Sun May 13, 2007 7:10 pm

richk wrote:you should send it back.

Or he can do it himself, it takes only five minutes to enter the correct serial number..

eleonas · #4 Post by **eleonas** » Sun May 13, 2007 7:32 pm

cmarti wrote:
richk wrote:you should send it back.
Or he can do it himself, it takes only five minutes to enter the correct serial number..

Ok - so they didn't set the serial number or model number. How can I do it myself. I haven't searched yet, but I have in the past (a similar issue happened with my sisters thinkpad which is still unresolved) - and the last time I searched, it seemed complicated.

Anyone have the "for dummy" version of instructions?

Thanks

#5 Post by **richk** » Sun May 13, 2007 7:42 pm

You need a copy of the maintenance disk. If the work was done under warranty, I would suggest making them do it.

#6 Post by **RealBlackStuff** » Mon May 14, 2007 2:08 am

It's a hard to find item, but you can get the disk here:
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/pc/pccbbs/bp ... tm22us.exe
Save it to your PC, then doubleclick it and have a 1.4mb floppy ready.
Boot the TP from it and Bob's your uncle after you followed the instructions.

bontistic · #7 Post by **bontistic** » Mon May 14, 2007 11:35 am

Don't forget to press the Esc key after power up to write-enable your EEPROM.

cmarti · #8 Post by **cmarti** » Mon May 14, 2007 12:21 pm

Here you go! Now you have all the instructions of how to do it.

Jason404 · #9 Post by **Jason404** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 9:02 am

I have this problem too, but my X31 has not got a floppy drive.

I really do not want to buy a floppy drive for the Ultrabase just for this, and I am wouldn't have thought that the X31 can boot from an external USB one.

So is there a way to somehow extract the floppy image from the link above and put it onto a bootable CD-R in floppy emulation mode?

Or is there a CD version of this maintenance disk available for download?

Thanks

#10 Post by **richk** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 11:09 pm

I spent too long a time trying to get the maintenance disk to work on a CD. I could get it to boot and run fine, but you couldn't get the eeprom unlocked to rewrite the serial numbers. I hit ESC at the right time and it looked like it was working, but the thing never unlocked the chip. There is some bug or "feature" in the software that stops it from working from a CD.

Jason404 · #11 Post by **Jason404** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 12:01 am

Thanks. I think I might as well just buy a USB floppy drive and keep it as my last ever floppy drive to be used in an emergency.

With [the rubbish] Vista we don't need floppies any more, and the new desktop machine I built hasn't got one.

New System Board (T43p) - now System Update will not work?

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