Lenovo Thinkpad BIOS Update

[corkyg]

Just downloaded and installed Lenovo BIOS 2.13 date 4-30-2007 for my recently acquired T60.

It is a neat flash system directly from within Windows. Nice not to have to mess with an external boot device.

Since I am leaving for Europe tomorrow, it was not without some trepidation that I said "yes" after a lot of warnings.

But it went very smoothly and everything works.

 

[VinDSL]

OMG!!!

I just updated the BIOS in my new Toshiba, and about had a heart attack!

First of all, I don't like doing BIOS updates - flashing PROMs makes me nervous as hell!!!

Second, this thing doesn't have a floppy, so I had to make a bootable CD, and I didn't have an image file - had to get one off the web.

Third, I used a new burner proggy (new to me) - CDBurner XP.

Fourth, I used a 6 year-old rewritable GQ (Great Quality) CDRW from Fry's - hardly the most dependable disc in the world.

After getting all this stuff together, I burned an ISO from Toshiba, and did a reboot from the CD.

Dude, I didn't know it was just gonna take off when it rebooted. I figured it would give me a list of options, like chickening out, or at least thinking about it before I pulled the trigger.

Anyway, away it went, erasing, writing, beeping, erasing, writing, beeping, yada, yada... then everything went black!!!

I thought, "Well, there goes my new lappy!"

Fortunately, when I powered back up, the BIOS was fully updated to Version 1.40

LoL!

All's well that ends well, I guess...

 

[Megatomic]

HP released a few updated BIOS images for my DV6000T this summer, and they were all winflash too. They went very smoothly and the last one actually fixed an issue I was having so it was well worth the time and fear for me.

Winflash ftw.

 

[DarkThinker]

I prefer not to do BIOS updates from Windows ever. I don't trust windows with my day to day activity then why should I trust it to not brick my machine?
I just download the BIOS ISO image, burn it onto a CD and do checks on it to make sure it all went well, boot from CD, flash and it's all good. It's a much safer approach if you ask me.

 

[VinDSL]

I prefer to boot from a floppy, save the old BIOS, and have a chance to back out of the whole process, if I get cold feet...

Believe me, I wouldn't have flashed this lappy if the 'change history' didn't reflect some important updates!

LoL! This thing is working too good! I'm bored...

Maybe I'll look around for an external floppy... Any tips or suggestions?