How can I help with thinkpad x220 issues?

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Tuesday, July 03, 2012 09:08:11 PM Ian Smith wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jul 2012 18:23:18 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote:
>  > On Tuesday, July 03, 2012 03:00:50 PM Natacha Porté wrote:
>  > > on Monday 02 July 2012 at 19:28, matt wrote:
>  > > > It's also possible you are running an old bios? Trying to get a few 
>  > > > things to work, I had the latest bios on my x220...never had problems 
>  > > > with the power button.
>  > > 
>  > > So the UEFI BIOS claims to have version 8DET58WW (1.28), dated as
>  > > 2012-02-14, while EC versions claims to be 8DHT29WW (1.13).
>  > > 
>  > ok, my BIOS is 1.26 and dated something end of last year.
>  > 
>  > > According to leveno website, that's two releases behind. I will try to
>  > > update it, despite my uneasiness caused by previous bad experiences.
>  > > Still I'm not exactly sure how to perform it, since I inadvertently
>  > > destroyed the Windows pre-installation, and I have no optical drive.
> 
> Can you borrow an external CD, Natacha?  Someone should have one ..
> 
>  > I never bother to update my BIOS since and update some 20 years ago 
>  > was not very successful.
> 
> I don't think that's such good advice, though I appreciate the fear of 
> doing it wrong.  Updating the BIOS and EC on my T23 required Windows or 
> DOS; it had win2k installed so I went with that, but was led to believe 
> that a FreeDOS bootdisk would do the job.  Later models (T43 and such) 
> also had a bootable CD image available, that could most likely be made 
> to work from a bootable memory stick, though I haven't tried that.

it is more the 'never break a running system' approach.
> 
>  > > Though I will probably try with CURRENT instead of STABLE before trying
>  > > BIOS update, since it's much easier to perform and I only need time to
>  > > get at it.
>  > > 
>  > I also think that this is the easier way free of any risks.
> 
> Well you could check BIOS/EC upgrade notes to try seeing if any of the 
> issues fixed may be relevant, but there have been many issues and PRs 
> fixed by nothing but a firmware upgrade, so I wouldn't skip that.
> 
Lenovo does promise much at their site.

As I have the older BIOS, either the newer one caused problems for Natasha or the problems are linked to FreeBSD 9.

Erich