[ltp] Easy Setup

[Thomas Hood]

Well, I rebooted, eff-one-ed and control-dee-ed and: Yikes!
A program came up allowing me to twiddle the bits in the
EEPROM.  I can see why IBM doesn't advertise this.  Dangerous.
:)

Thomas

--- Jens Kirch <jens.kirch@gmx.net> wrote: 
> On Thinkpads equipped with "easy Setup", accessed by holding Fl while
> you power on your computer, the following known keystrokes are available
> throughout setup:
> 
> -When you are in TEST mode, accessed by clicking the "test" icon on the
> main menu, the following extra keystrokes are available:
> 
> Ctrl-A: Verbose test mode and required for some of the following as well.
> Ctrl-E: Error list from most recent test(s)
> Ctrl-F: fru connections
> Ctrl-K: Interactive keyboard test
> Ctrl-L: Low level format hard drive (DANGEROUS, so BE CAREFUL)
> Ctrl-V: View results from last test(s)
> 
> -When you are in CONFIG mode accessed by clicking the config icon on the
> main menu, the following extra keystrokes may be available:
> 
> Ctrl-N: Serial # change (Removed from later models?)
> Ctrl-G: UUID # change (Removed from later models?)
> Ctrl-D: XCMOS utility, look at interupts and devices installed, modify
> 
> There may be more keystrokes that aren't listed here, if you know of one,
> please let us know! Additionally, not all Thinkpads may accept the
> keystrokes
> shown above.

Pressing F1 brings up a help screen with a list of the
secret commands.  

Thomas

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