Sorry for being a pest, but I'd just like to know what do to at this point. I've got a Thinkpad R60 94xx. chaddawkins very kindly provided an SLIC 2.1 mod of this, which is said to work by some who have tested it. However, I cannot make it work with phlash16.exe in pure DOS. The flasher sais something like "File is corrupt" or something about the checksum. I've tried downloading it again, and I get the same result. It seems I cannot use the WinPhlash application; I'm running Windows 7 64-bit, maybe that's what's causing an incompatibility. However, the DOS flasher rejects the flash. Anyone have any idea about this? I'd appreciate any suggestions. If WinPhlash is really required, could this work from something like a USB booted Windows XP or something?
Ph i found this after searching "phlash checksum" i'm not too familiar with phlash16 as i should be, but did you try "phlash16.exe /?" in DOS?
Help! "Stuck" at "Processing Block 28 of 29" for 10+ mins Hello, I was in the process of flashing my X60t, everything was going fine however things 'froze' at "Processing Block 28 of 29"... I have been on that message for at least 10 mins now (I realize it says to wait for it to finish... but it's feeling like a lockup to me)... I have not done anything to stop it however the mouse and probably the keyboard (haven't touched it) are frozen. If anyone would be willing to give me some advice if they have encountered this before PLEASE do! EDIT/more info: I was flashing from the 32-bit windows PE environment, I run 64 bit windows 7 and was receiving an error when tried to backup or flash... EDIT2: I just realized this is the *Request* forum... I apologize for breaking the rules; I am just a bit anxious about if I am going to mess up my laptop or not... :/
Getting somewhere, but not quite there yet... The first suggestion (from Yen's post) gave me this message: "The IBM routines (Lock/Unlock/Security) not found in the interface" Your second suggestion just gives me the parameter list, as if I typed something wrong. And believe me, I tried it many times, doublechecking all the parameters. What will I do? WinPhlash in a 32bit bootable USB environment?
Actually, I solved the problem. I booted one of all those utility boot CDs you find on the net, started "Mini Windows XP" and went from there to WinPhlash. Since that OS is 32-bit, I had no problems flashing the ROM file you provided, only thing was I had to select the RAM drive for the mandatory backup in WinPhlash. Your Thinkpad R60 94xx SLIC 2.1 mod works like a charm. I removed my old loader and installed the Lenovo CB-01 certificate and my Windows 7 was activated without any SLIC emulation. Thanks again for all your help. PS. Maybe you should include that this BIOS has the no-1082 mod included in the list in the first post of this thread. Might be useful to some people.
Was the bios confirmed to work? It still stopped? 1 or two members I know had that before. I don't know what they did further, but honestly to tell you they had to try for recovery....I wish I could give an advice to you....if you can stop the flash process DON't reboot..try to manage to re-start the flash process with original bios if possible....if you re-boot the bios has to initialise again and I'm afraid in that condition it will not....I hope you can manage to re-start the flash process without to reboot....as last resort try to cancel the flash process calling task manager...and again do not reboot if possible...good luck...
2-cents (now i'm broke) I am trying to think back to when I flashed my bios, it never showed the final part# of part#, it just went straight to a "rebooting in 10 seconds" type message (I did mine in Win7) What I mean is, my bios only had 16 parts, so the last # of # it showed was 15 of 16, then the reboot warning. I never got a 16 of 16 message. Doesn't phlash16 have a command to make it restart? what i'm saying is, if you didn't specify that switch, would it reboot on it's own? or would it finish and sit there like it is at the moment and you have to power-off/power-on manually? I am not saying power-off/power-on !!! lol stick with what Yen suggested I am simply throwing my 2-cents out there