[OT] overheating Thinkpad X60s with 7.0-RC1

Johannes Dieterich dieterich.joh at googlemail.com
Wed Jan 9 11:57:59 PST 2008


http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/BIOS_Upgrade/X_Series

looks as if it could be valuable... Sorry for disturbing.

On 1/9/08, Johannes Dieterich <dieterich.joh at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> half offtopic: concerning the BIOS update:
>
> On 1/8/08, Nathan Lay <nslay at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > If you can, use DR-DOS (Caldera's DOS).  Not to rag on FreeDOS or
> > anything, but I've had bad experiences with FreeDOS and BIOS updates.
> >
> > http://www.drdosprojects.de/
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Nathan Lay
> >
>
> thanks for the link but after checking the release notes a little bit on
> the lenovo page for the BIOS update two things are remarkable:
>
> 1) They nowadays have a bootable CD version (most likely most people here
> knew already) which enables you in theory to update without a Windows. BUT
>
> 2) That is just working with an IBM CD-drive sitting in the Thinkpads
> Ultrabay, explicitly NOT (at least that is what it says) with an IBM docking
> station. Can someone here explain me the sense of having such a thing for
> the X-series then? On top
>
> 2*) You are not allowed to have any USB drives connected to your Thinkpad
> whilst updating.
>
> Wonderful, or?
>
> Bye,
>
> Johannes
>


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