Oh gosh! I think I did it! 2 days reading everything and I activated windows 7 by sheer luck. Such a charm!!!! Thanks everyone so much!!!!
I tried installing the bios provided on previous post, however when it goes into the flashing menu it says"no updated needed" Manufaturer: IBM Lenovo Model: Thinkpad T42 BIOS Revision: 3.23 The Bios version that ha sbeen edited by Yen is also 3.23 . Anyway to try and install it, or change the bios so that it will install over? Any help is appreciated.
@ YEN sorry for wrong thread, but i want to know can i do some thing like ur manual way for no BCPs found using PBE with the dell bios. i extracted rom and hdr but PBE says no BCPs found when i try to open the rom file. my optiplex 745 has slic 2.0 frm dell no mod. but now i cant mod nor any of the loaders work for win 7.
original, modded with slic2.1, modded with slic2.1+bmd, which is for those of you have customized parts, ie wwan, wlan card without FRU
I had just downloaded these files following the posts in this forum (didn't get a chance to try them out myself). However, if you look at the linked post, there is one reported success with the first file (i.e. t400._TC-5H.rar). I looked at the disassembly - it's indeed SLIC 2.1 modded ("LENOVOTC-5H/MSFT") and should activate 7. However, when I looked at the other two files (originally linked from Yen's post) - I couldn't find the 2.1 SLIC (although I can't be 100% sure). Maybe someone else can confirm this? If someone who speaks chinese can go through that forum and share the success reports, that would be great. I have updated my original post based on this. Cheers!