Unable to flash BIOS on old Thinkpad 770ED

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Unable to flash BIOS on old Thinkpad 770ED

#1 Post by dblaszczyk » Wed Dec 02, 2009 12:18 pm

I have a IBM Thinkpad 770ED and I need to update the BIOS for XP support. It has no floppy drive but I was able to make the bootable floppy on another system. Now I have all of the files from the bootable floppy but I can't find a way to get this working off of a cd. I have tried a whole bunch of stuff and every search on google just confuses me. I tried Bart's clean boot cd for flashing a BIOS but it gets stuck at "ROOT FAT KERNEL GO!". Could anyone tell me how to get this working?

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Re: Unable to flash BIOS on old Thinkpad 770ED

#2 Post by dblaszczyk » Thu Dec 03, 2009 11:19 am

Is there really no help? I've seen that people have done this before on older thinkpads, tell me how you did it please.

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Re: Unable to flash BIOS on old Thinkpad 770ED

#3 Post by pkiff » Thu Dec 03, 2009 11:06 pm

dblaszczyk wrote:Is there really no help? I've seen that people have done this before on older thinkpads, tell me how you did it please.
I haven't seen any reports of someone doing this on a 770ED or a 770E...or on any 770 series for that matter. I'm sure that no one is holding out on you.

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