Since when are Notebooks available on the market? And it always happens that a customer gets into trouble if a bad flash happens.... This I don't understand at all.....there should be a simple recovery option available at every machine this time......... Anyway.....what about Lenovo support? They should be able to help you. Have you asked about how to recover your Thinkpad? There are a lot of cheap-brands Notebooks on the market, which have got a excellent recovery option already.......... about Lenovo I wouldn't say that they belong to the cheap-brands........ really NO chance to recover???
Yen, Unfortunately, the lenovo/IBM prefers to replace the motherboard than the flash chip itself. So the machine serial number will be new, etc. Can you elaborate a bit more? There has been two failed flashes after mine. Did you do my x61 flash differently than the failed ones?
Yes. The "LENOVO" way is a complete manually way to modify Phoenix bioses. Phoenix bios editor often messes up the bios at rebuild. I trusted that tool....... It took some time till I've figured out how the structure works at Phoenix bioses. All the following mods I will do, I'll only use the manual way. At X61 there IS only the manually way, at the others that failed, there is a alternative way. The way to use PBE, which su**s as we know now. Using PBE is a fast way, but results at Thinkpad bioses to a bricked board. The manually way is very time consuming, but hey..... no question, always use the save way..... Together with winphlash 1.6.6.3c you'll get the same risk as you'll have if you update a original bios. This was a process of research and learning. Unfortunately research always takes some time and bricked boards as results are responsible to improve the methods. You know there IS something wrong and you have to figure out what's the reason for it.
OK, I'll modify it next days. One more question: Are you currently running the same original bios version: 03 Jul 2007, 1RETDRWW (3.23)? If not, update it before and have a look for possible issues.
I'm running the latest (3.23) on the Lenovo site, yes. I've been running it since it was released, and I think it works fine on the machine.
You are the man! That works perfectly! Vista shows that it is activated in control panel and slmgr.vbs -xpr shows activation as "permanent". Thank you so much for doing this for me!!
Thanks for report. You are welcome. Yes, I know it, the Lenovo way is the right way. Too bad that I did 2 mods with PBE before that bricked the Notebook. But now it's over.... Concept is proven again!