[ltp] Thinkpad T40 BIOS upgrade, how to update the ECP? (PXE boot)

[Daniel]

On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 01:53:25PM -0400, Oisin Feeley wrote:
> I have now observed that the freeze may be correlated with the
> position that the screen is angled at, or the screen being moved. So I
> now suspect that the ribbon cable is something that I should try to
> replace.

Is it possible that the freeze is correlated with applying pressure to
the main case? If yes, that hints at a cracked mainboard.

> Summary:  it does not seem to matter whether one uses
> diskette/non-diskette BIOS/ECP update, it is possible to flash the
> BIOS before the ECP(hardware controller) in accordance with what Intel
> suggest and in disagreement with the current (Mar 2007) advice on
> ThinkWiki.  Screen corruption problems may be due to the

I cannot agree with that. While I managed to update first BIOS, then
ECP, I had to go and get a USB floppy drive for the ECP update. Trying
from within windoze just hung the system.

Daniel
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