LENOVO (IBM) Bioses, especially Thinkpad.

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

  1. Yen

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  3. MrAP

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    I'm having the same issue also. Have you been able to activate successfully?
    Thx.
     
  4. spankenstein

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    Any luck with this? I cannot find one either.
     
  5. spankenstein

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    Anyone know where this may be?
     
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  9. Bobbydream

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    Hi!
    I've got Lenovo G555 notebook.
    There's no bios file on the official site.
    Do I have any chances to "slic" my bios?
     
  10. Yen

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    Just post a link to it and I have a look at it.
    @all
    without a official bios update from Lenovo there is no chance to mod it. This is for Phoenix bios only. For all others it should be possible to save the bios.

    regarding whitelist removal:
    I don't know how it works at G 550. The expert is zender.
    Google for 'endeer phoenix' and you'll find his e-mail address.

    What I can try is to insert your new card if you post me its device and vendor ID's / sub Id's for authentication.
     
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  11. rogerwilco75

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    Hi all!

    I encountered a problem with a Lenovo Thinkpad SL500. I first updated it to the latest original Bios Revision: 1.25 using "WINUPTP".

    Yes, I would've preferred to do it in a DOS environment but as the person was on the phone and wasn't too familiar with entering the BIOS, being at the command prompt it was updated to the latest BIOS from within Windows (yes, I explained the "increased risks" of the Windows BIOS flashing to him). The update tool seemed to have worked without any trouble, at least no error message was shown. Could the BIOS update fail without a notice of the program as the BIOS may have been write protected?

    The next flash using the modded BIOS *.fl1 ROM file (Bios Revision: 1.25 Bios Date: 2009/09/10 Bios Type: AMI SLIC: Lenovo2.1 (LENOVO-TP-7Y-LTP) SLP: Lenovo Cert: Lenovo Method: SSV3/MMTool. AMITool 1.51) had to be run using "WINUPTP /S" to force the flash as the currently present BIOS is/was the most up-to-date one and "/S" forces the flash process (skipping the version check afaik). This also worked without any apparent trouble. Reboot, no trouble.

    Then the Uninstaller that came with that Windows Version (BIE release) was run to remove the Windows loader. It appeared to be working just like I read that it would. It removed the loader and on the next reboot the desktop was all black and a nice little "hello" message from MS could be seen at the bottom right corner of the screen - just as expected; no loader-> no or no matching BIOS SLIC info -> activation gone.

    Then the command prompt with admin rights was launched and "slmgr.vbs -ilc CERTFILENAME" and "slmgr.vbs -ipk LICENSEKEY" were run; both commands resulted in a positive feedback. Reboot.

    Desktop still black, that nice "hello" message is still there, activation ... negative.

    So the two commands were re-run at the admin command console, reboot, still the same.

    Any idea what could have went wrong ? Yes, this method worked more than once with that "BIE" release before.

    Thank you very very much in advance for your help!

    rogerwilco