[ILUG] Laptop problems.

[Paul Linehan]

Patrick O'Connor <patrick.oconnor at sysadmin.ie> a écrit
:

> > It's an IBM Thinkpad (Type 1171) iSeries - no


> Before you go buying any new hardware, see if you
> can reset the bios. I
> presume you can't reflash it becasue there's no
> available boot devices apart
> from windows unless you can flash it from windows
> i.e. download a 32bit exe
> that loads the bios flsher into the bootloader so
> when you reboot it reads
> the flasher from the hard drive.

Tried googling for 

bios flasher ibm thinkpad win32 exe

and got 

================
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-4C5UP9.html
================

But this appears to require that you be able 
to boot from floppy...

and also found 

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http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-67982.html
=================


which appears only to work for newer models. 

Never mind - I'll try anyway - the machine is pretty
useless as things are in any case.


Anybody got *_the_* site for bios flashing for
IBM thinkpads?


> If that works then just load linux this time and get
> rid of windows. On a
> laptop of that age running windows is not doing yo
> any favours and you
> mentioned that you have a windows desktop anyway.


I will load Linux when I can get things booting.


Any further help, suggestions &c appreciated.


Rgs.


Paul...

 
> Patrick
 


plinehan at yahoo.com

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