[ltp] Thinkpad Hardware Maintenance Diskette

[Byeong-ryeol Kim]

On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, John Morris wrote:

> I'm afflicted with the ERROR 188 problem, and looking for the Maintenance
> Diskette.  IBM says it isn't available to mortals, but a posting on this
> list (from Apr 21, two days ago) implies there are copies in the 'wild'.
> Since I'd rather fix it myself instead of shipping it off, just wondering
> if anyone could aim me towards a copy?
....

The site mentioned in IBM's pdf manuals perl product seems to be
obsolete. I wasted several days to find proper site.
Try to visit <ftp://ftp.pc.ibm.com/pub/pccbbs/>. there are many
subdirectories under it. 'mobiles' or 'ta_support' subdirectory
might have the file you want. I recall there were maintxxx diskette
images perl model, and so to select proper one is important.
Since the model of youre notebook are not explicitly spoken, and
due to the UUID problem I mentioned in previous mail I'm not
convinced this is helpful.
Please, go and read the readme file(*.txt). Caveat Emptor. :-)

> At least my box isn't a pet rock, ESC gets it going.  Lots of folks are
> much worse off from what I'm reading.  IBM really needs to get off the pot
> and explain how these puppies work.
....

On my 600X, I recall maintenance diskette required 'ESC' at POST time
before ThinkPad logo appears to make EEPROM writable. If I did so, there
were keyboard errors besides 189 error, but I could go into CMOS menu.
But, I failed to revert my origianl UUID, since I couldn't manually type
UUID into it. I could use (hidden) shortcut key such as Ctrl-G without maint
diskette in CMOS menu, too,  but Automatically changed UUID was not meaningful
to me.

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