[ltp] Re: General question on BIOS update

[Rolf Kutz]

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On 11/12/08 07:10 -0700, Yves Dorfsman wrote:
> Christoph Bier wrote:
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>> browsing ThinkWiki I found the suggestion to always have an up-to-date =
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>> BIOS. My wife's R60 is about two years old and hasn't seen any BIOS =20
>> update since then. Is updating safe according to functionality under =20
>> Linux? I'm not sure because on my new X200s thinkpad_ec doesn't load so=
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>> I can not benefit from tp_smapi. But on my wife's TP it works like a =20
>> charm. I'm afraid of breaking this functionality by updating the BIOS.
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> How does one upgrade the BIOS on a Thinkpad ?
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> When I looked into it, Lenovo/IBM provided a Windows executable. Does=20
> that mean that if you do not have a version of Windows, does that mean=20
> you cannot upgrade ?

Usually there is also a bootable CD-image.=20

regards, Rolf
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