[ltp] Re: General question on BIOS update

[Christoph Bier]

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

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/BIOS_Upgrade

Best
Christoph
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