LENOVO (IBM) Bioses, especially Thinkpad.

Discussion in 'BIOS Mod Requests. Post Requests Only' started by ancestor(v), Jun 17, 2009.

  1. Pascal21

    Pascal21 MDL Novice

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    Hi,

    Once the bios has been modded with success on a Thinkpad T500, is it possible without any risk to update bios with the usual Lenovo Update?
    Thanks in advance for your ansxer,
     
  2. Yen

    Yen Admin
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    You mean flashed a modded bios already on a T500?
    Yes of course. You have exactly the same risk as you would have when updating from original to latest original bios. But you will lose activation then except you have applied marker tools and no biosmod.
    I highly recommend to apply a biosupdate only IF the changelog of the new biosversion is important to you. There are many users that just want to have the latest bios applied: Why? I myself don't have the latest bios applied, because my system is running fine already.
     
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  3. luky

    luky MDL Addicted

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    Yen One question as a consultant to the Bios. It can be installed Windows7 x64 on a PC or laptop with a loaded 32 bit Bios, Bios must also be 64 bit? Thanks.
     
  4. TTAV134

    TTAV134 MDL Expert

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    Bios is not depending of the platform you're using, only the flashing tool differ.

    for your complete information, Phoenix bios are compiled in 16bit and Insyde bios are in 64bit.
     
  5. TTAV134

    TTAV134 MDL Expert

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    an other example of what happens when the request is not complete! missing RWreport!
    On the first page of this thread you cannot miss this announce in big characters: "If your bios has a SLIX table" ...
     
  6. Pascal21

    Pascal21 MDL Novice

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    Yes, OK Thanks !
     
  7. TTAV134

    TTAV134 MDL Expert

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    because "Lenovo tp-6q slic 2.1" is a full slic table containing the header (36 cars), the public key (156 cars) and the marker (182 cars)
    with an hex editor like HxD you must extract the marker. you are on the good way. let us know.
     
  8. recyclered

    recyclered MDL Novice

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    I extract last 182 bytes from "Lenovo tp-6q slic 2.1", trying again use LENOVO SLP2.0 Marker File Update Utility, but get same error:
    -set marker write:
    error marker already exist
    operation can't complete
    -clear marker write:
    error marker already cleared
    operation can't complete

    if i wanna update my bios file whith phoenixtool172, what file i must modify:
    $01C2100.FL1 1.6MB
    $01C2100.FL2 3MB
    $01C3100.FL2 3MB