Bios upgrade on T60p widescreen

[TOMSrolla]

I have a T60p widescreen running Win 7 64-bit and still using the old bios Version 7IET19WW (1.00), is it advisable to upgrade it to the latest version Version 7IET37WW (1.18)

I have a seagate 250Gb 5400 as main HDD and 2nd HDD ,a seagate 500GB 7200 on an ultra slim drive bay (jumpered pin 1and 2) and sometimes OS cannot find bootdrive on cold boot, had to reboot Win 7 and sometimes BSOD on crash dumps while browsing using Firefox 3.6

[richk]

My suggestion is yes, but I would do it from a bootable CD (from iso image) rather than from inside windows 7.

[TOMSrolla]

My suggestion is yes, but I would do it from a bootable CD (from iso image) rather than from inside windows 7.

I'm a newbie in tinkering the Bios setup.... How do I go about it

[richk]

I will try to resist the temptation to say that running 64-bit windows 7 on a T60 is not the best choice for a newbie. You need to download the .iso file from this page:
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-67020

You will need some kind of software to open the file and burn a cd, then boot from the cd and follow the instructions. Perhaps you know someone who can help.

[sysiphus]

I will try to resist the temptation to say that running 64-bit windows 7 on a T60 is not the best choice for a newbie. You need to download the .iso file from this page:
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-67020

You will need some kind of software to open the file and burn a cd, then boot from the cd and follow the instructions. Perhaps you know someone who can help.

If he's already got Win7 installed, it's no problem to burn an .iso--Win7 has a built-in utility that will launch by default when you double-click an .iso (unless you've changed the default file association).

[richk]

I was not sure he had it running

[TOMSrolla]

I was not sure he had it running

Its running on Win 7 64-bits for 5 months now .... but sometimes experiencing BSOD on crash dumps and I/O errors on disc. I'm using the video drivers for ATI FireGL v5250 from win 7 updates.

[TOMSrolla]

My suggestion is yes, but I would do it from a bootable CD (from iso image) rather than from inside windows 7.

Thank you so much for the info and guidance.......

I was able to download the bootable Iso image for Win 7 64-bit from Lenovo support site for T60p Widescreen and burn a bootable CD using ImageBurn and use it to boot outside Win 7 and upgrade the Bios to its latest version . My heart was thumping hard through out the whole process