[ltp] Haswell thinkpads bios problem

[Leon Weber]

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On 16.02.2014 18:32:08, Christoph Schmees wrote:
> Am 16.02.2014 12:21, schrieb Leon Weber:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > we’ve all heard about the BIOS problems with the recent Haswell
> > Thinkpads, and that Lenovo has promised a fix for that. My google magic
> > couldn’t find any more recent information beside this promise, so do we
> > now anything new about that problem? Is there a fix yet? Is there some
> > place where information is collected?
> 
> I bricked my X220. Dual boot W7 and Linux Mint. Linux put into
> hibernation; on wake-up: brick. The device is under on-site
> warranty still.

I didn’t know the X220 series was affected, the problem reports I heard
all mention the recent Haswell generation. Is that a typo and you meant
to write X240? Or is the X220 affected by the same problem, or are there
seperate problems? All BIOS brick problems I could find seem to be
related to BIOS upgrades, although the symptoms you describe do sound
like the ones we heard from the Haswell generation laptops.

> A technician came and exchanged the MB; first I did was BIOS setup and
> pin the boot mode to legacy (was "automatic" by default). No problems
> since; keep fingers crossed.  :-)

Good to know the repair is hassle-free.

    -- Leon.
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