https://www.thinkwiki.org/w/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Andy+Shevchenko&feedformat=atomThinkWiki - User contributions [en]2024-03-29T02:36:12ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.31.12https://www.thinkwiki.org/w/index.php?title=BIOS_Upgrade&diff=44721BIOS Upgrade2009-11-09T15:15:35Z<p>Andy Shevchenko: /* Does work: */ +1 to x40</p>
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This page is meant to describe ways to update the BIOS on a ThinkPad that only runs Linux for users that don't have ready access to Windows. If you have Windows on your ThinkPad you can just boot into it and follow instructions on the IBM website.<br />
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{{NOTE| In one case ([[APM setup on a type 2379 ThinkPad T40]]) it was not possible to upgrade the BIOS from Windows XP; a downgrade to Windows 98 was required to successfully run the BIOS upgrade app. The symptoms in this case were that, once the files had been extracted to the hard disk, and the machine was to reboot into the upgrade app, it would beep and hang just before reboot, requiring a power cycle. Once the power was cycled, it would simply reboot back into XP without performing any BIOS upgrade actions. So even if you have Windows, you may still need to use the info on this page.}}<br />
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==Before You Begin==<br />
Updating the BIOS in Linux (with few exceptions) '''is not officially supported''' by IBM/Lenovo. However there are work arounds.<br />
<br />
{{WARN|By following any of the instructions here you are accepting the '''very real risk''' of turning your thinkpad into a big expensive paper weight, as a firmware update gone wrong can create unfixable problems.<br />
<br />
'''Proceed at your own risk!'''<br />
<br />
It is also important to understand that Thinkpads from IBM have two separate firmwares: the BIOS, and the Embedded Controller program. A given BIOS version will require a certain version of the Embedded Controller program.<br />
<br />
The IBM documentation is sometimes unclear about the order in which these two firmwares should be updated. On most, but not all Thinkpads, '''the correct update order is Embedded Controller program first, and then the BIOS'''. Make sure to do the two updates immediately one after the other. Newer models from Lenovo update both the Embedded Controller program and the BIOS at the same time, so you don't have to worry about it.}}<br />
<br />
===DMI IDs===<br />
Please consider updating the [[List of DMI IDs]] before (and after) updating your BIOS.<br />
<br />
==BIOS Upgrade Paths==<br />
<br />
For every firmware (either BIOS or Embedded Controller program) update on the IBM web site there used to be two different firmware update programs provided. The Diskette Updater and the Non Diskette Updater. For newer Lenovo Models the Diskette Updater is replaced with a bootable CD-Image and the Non Diskette Updater is renamed BIOS Update Utility, both of which update the BIOS and the Embedded Controller program at the same time. A list of links to firmware downloads can be found at [[BIOS Upgrade Downloads]] for nearly all Thinkpad Models.<br />
<br />
===The Diskette Updater===<br />
<br />
{{WARN|If the floppy fails while flashing, your ThinkPad will need a repair shop}}<br />
<br />
The Diskette updater appears to be a 16 bit DOS program which asks you to accept a license agreement. It will run in Windows, DOS, OS/2, or [http://dosemu.sf.net Dosemu] perfectly, but requires a real floppy disk attached via a real floppy controller. A USB Floppy Drive will not work. <br />
<br />
The flash environment can be a really dumb piece of work and it will be reading the data from the floppy as it goes, i.e. it is dangerous as all heck should the floppy reads fail. Use a clean (in the physical sense) floppy and floppy drive. Have two or more flash disks ready, all of them binary copies of each other, and all of them tested to be perfectly readable. And the only thing you can tell DOS without risking your ThinkPad, is to "Retry" if it asks.<br />
<br />
Important floppy-drive knowledge for those who are not used to them:<br />
* One floppy is never enough. Good quality ones are very dependable for short-time data storage when new, but chances are you'll be using either old or extra-shitty diskettes (good ones have not been manufactured for a long while now), so you cannot trust them at all<br />
* When a floppy fails to read because you failed at the "use clean floppies" part, it may get dirt stuck to the drive head and will not work well until cleaned<br />
* You can clean a floppy disk, but it requires much care as you must do it without using any fluids, and you only want to remove the dirt on top of the metal-oxide layer, without damaging said layer (i.e. you can't rub it, and you can't cause any scratches)<br />
* Dirty driver heads sometime damage floppies. Wet driver heads always damage floppies. Clean the drive heads first, and make sure to wait until they dry before inserting a floppy in the drive<br />
* You may need to clean the floppy drive head before it will work again if it gets dirty. You'll need the usual "floppy disk cleaner diskette with isopropil alcohol" kit to fix it (if you know the other way to clean the heads, you don't need to be reading this!), always telling DOS to "retry" (hit anything else, and your ThinkPad is likely toast)<br />
* If you forget to let the head dry after a cleaning, it will destroy the next floppy it touches and get very dirty.<br />
<br />
===The Bootable CD Image===<br />
<br />
Newer models from Lenovo can be updated using the Bootable CD Image. This should be the easiest way for non-Windows users and also maybe a more secure way for Windows users, as well. As the image is provided as a plain ISO-file without any Windows enclosure, you can simply burn it to a CD-R/RW with any modern operating system, as long as you have a CD/DVD-RW Drive and are then able to boot from it.<br />
<br />
===Extracting a Bootable CD-ROM Image from the Non Diskette Updater===<br />
{{WARN|Though this process was successfully tested on one version of .exe files found on IBMs website this doesn't mean it will work for all of them. Proceed at your own risk. Consult the list at the bottom of this page to see other users' experience with your model Thinkpad.}}<br />
<br />
This installer appears to be a 32bit windows .exe which is designed for updating the BIOS directly from a running Windows OS. It turns out that this .exe is really a wrapper license program around Windows .cab files (see [[How_to_change_the_BIOS_bootsplash_screen|BIOS-Bootsplash]]). If you install the Linux program [http://freshmeat.net/projects/cabextract/ '''cabextract'''] you can expand these .cab files directly. Run the following:<br />
<br />
:{{cmduser|cabextract FILENAME.exe}}<br />
<br />
This will extract 8 files in the current directory. One of them will be FILENAME.img. In this discussion, "FILENAME" represents the name of the Non Diskette file that you downloaded, such as "1NHJ04US".<br />
<br />
The non Diskette download was not extractable for at least the version 3.23 (T41p), but the diskette version worked perfectly - cabextract delivered a .img file to continue here...<br />
<br />
You can test that this is really a floppy image by running:<br />
<br />
:{{cmdroot|mkdir mntfloppy}}<br />
:{{cmdroot|mount -o loop FILENAME.img mntfloppy}}<br />
:{{cmdroot|ls -la mntfloppy}}<br />
<br />
If the results of {{cmdroot|ls -la mntfloppy}} look like a dos floppy, and no read errors were displayed, you have a pretty good chance that the floppy image is usable.<br />
<br />
Unmount the image after you are done:<br />
<br />
:{{cmdroot|umount mntfloppy}}<br />
<br />
Now, you can proceed to [[BIOS_Upgrade:Creating a Bootable CD from a Floppy Image]], below.<br />
<br />
===Booting the image with syslinux===<br />
<br />
Once the image is extracted from the Non Diskette Updater, it can be booted directly through GRUB without the need of burning a CD. This method has been tested on T42 with a broken DVD-ROM, but it should be applicable to any ThinkPad.<br />
<br />
'''1.''' Download the '''Non Diskette Updater'''.<br />
<br />
'''2.''' Extract the images using '''cabextract''' (see previous sections for details). Let's say that the image file is called {{path|1RUJ37US.IMG}} (replace with the actual filename).<br />
<br />
'''3.''' Make sure that <tt>syslinux</tt> package is installed in your system. Locate the <tt>memdisk</tt> file from the syslinux package. In case of openSUSE 11.1, it is placed in {{path|/usr/share/syslinux/memdisk}}. On Ubuntu 9.04, it can be found at {{path|/usr/lib/syslinux/memdisk}}.<br />
<br />
{{HINT|If you use rpm, try calling <tt>$ rpm -q syslinux --list</tt>}}<br />
<br />
'''4.''' Copy both the '''image and memdisk''' files into {{path|/boot}} directory. You must be root to do this.<br />
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{{cmdroot|cp ./1RUJ37US.IMG /usr/share/syslinux/memdisk /boot/}}<br />
<br />
'''5.''' Open {{path|/boot/grub/menu.lst}} in your favourite editor.<br />
<br />
'''6.''' Copy the active section and edit <tt>title</tt>, <tt>kernel</tt>, <tt>initrd</tt> according to this example:<br />
<br />
<pre>title IBM BIOS update<br />
root (hd0,0)<br />
kernel /boot/memdisk<br />
initrd /boot/1RUJ37US.IMG<br />
</pre><br />
<br />
{{NOTE|The <tt>root</tt> section must remain unchanged. This tells GRUB, on which partition the image is located.}}<br />
{{WARN|Do not modify the original section in <tt>/boot/grub/menu.lst</tt>. You might not be able to boot back to the operating system}}<br />
<br />
== Updating Thinkpad X Series ==<br />
<br />
The special update instructions for X series Thinkpads are quite long. You can find them at the page [[BIOS_Upgrade/X_Series]].<br />
<br />
==Updating via CD/DVD Drive==<br />
<br />
The whole thing gets more complicated if you neither have Windows nor a floppy drive installed. This is what this page is intended to describe.<br />
<br />
Another possibility which works even without a CD-drive or network is to boot the disk image via the grub initrd mechanism.<br />
<br />
Be aware that IBM officially does '''not''' support this! The official statement to my support request was:<br />
<br />
<blockquote style="background: white; border: 1px solid black; padding: 1em;"><br />
<pre><nowiki><br />
I'm afraid we only support the options listed on our web page and no you<br />
can't burn a CD/DVD, however you can try to use an external USB FDD<br />
(floppy) drive. The experts recommend a IBM USB FDD, however they have also<br />
tested it with a Sony USB FDD drive.<br />
<br />
In order to make sure the drive is recognised you can boot up the FDD with<br />
a bootable dos diskette for w98<br />
</nowiki></pre><br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
But it seems to be possible as Mathias Dalheimer describes this [http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/pipermail/linux-thinkpad/1998-January/009743.html here].<br />
<br />
Another indication that it should work is that IBM uses PHLASH16.EXE (at least on T4x/p systems) to flash the BIOS into the chip. The same tool is used by [http://www.samsungpc.com/gb/support/p35/bios/bios-instructions.html other vendors] to flash the BIOS from bootable CD-ROMs.<br />
{{WARN|Do '''not''' use the [http://syslinux.zytor.com/ SYSLINUX] image-loader [http://syslinux.zytor.com/memdisk.php MEMDISK] to boot the images! Some flash tools crash in that situation!}}<br />
<br />
Some interesting but very technical information about the used flash tool can be found [http://www.paul.sladen.org/thinkpad-r31/wifi-card-pci-ids.html here].<br />
<br />
===Creating a Floppy Image===<br />
If you have created a boot floppy on another machine, you need to create an image file of that floppy. This can be easily done in linux by running a command line:<br />
<br />
:{{cmdroot|1=dd bs=2x80x18b if=/dev/fd0 of=/tmp/floppy.img}}<br />
<br />
You can also create a floppy image by using Ken Kato's [http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html VMware's back]. It is a free Windoze tool that creates a virtual floppy drive and allows you to produce an image file ready to be ISO'ed. Note: you might have to 'manually' (through application's interface) assign the virtual drive a volume letter in order to be seen by IBM's application (as, by default, it seems not to do it).<br />
<br />
You should verify this {{path|floppy.img}} as explained above.<br />
<br />
===Creating a Bootable CD from a Floppy Image===<br />
Once you have your floppy image, either from imaging a real floppy, or from extracting them via the cabextract method above, you need to make a boot CD out of it.<br />
<br />
The eltorito bootable CD standard is a wonderful thing. What this means is that a bootable CD can be made with a bootable floppy in such as way that the CD believes that it is a 2.88 MB floppy drive. This allows you to replace a boot floppy by a boot CD in nearly all situations.<br />
<br />
It is very easy to create such a bootable CD ISO image in Linux using the mkisofs tool. To do this run a command as follows:<br />
<br />
:{{cmdroot|mkisofs -b bootfloppy.img -o bootcd.iso bootfloppy.img}}<br />
<br />
where bootfloppy.img is the name of the .img floppy image file, for example 1NUJ10US.IMG.<br />
<br />
Note: This creates a CD with one file on it and marks that file as the boot image. For more info on this read {{cmduser|man mkisofs}}.<br />
<br />
You can now burn the {{path|bootcd.iso}} in your favorite CD burning program.<br />
<br />
To get an overview which models have been tested with this version, here is a list:<br />
<br />
===Does work:===<br />
{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"<br />
| '''Model''' || '''Tested by'''<br />
|-<br />
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{600E}} (2645-4AU) ||<br />
*George Tellalov <gtellalov_dontspamme@bigfoot.com>. BIOS 1.16 from spsdin36.exe worked perfectly with the method bootable cd from floppy image. I highly recommend this upgrade because it made my ibm-acpi module load (it wouldn't load before) and fixed some suspend to ram problems. Here's the [http://george.tellalov.info/bios_upgrade_600e_spsdin36.iso cd image] I used. Use at your own risk. You can send me a chocolate if it works for you ;)<br />
|-<br />
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{600E}} (2645-5bU) ||<br />
*Mike Vincent<matchstc-putobvioushere.com>. Bios 1.16 from spsdin36.exe and then to the boot cd worked great for me. Thought I had bricked it three separate times using a "real" floppy! Each from different diskettes .The updater would start, give me the "going to take30 seconds" speech...and then access the HD for 10 minutes. Each time it would reboot fine. Did the cd as described above...worked great first time. Perhaps 10 year old seldom used floppy disc drives have some challenges?<br />
|-<br />
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{600X}} (2645) ||<br />
*Jonathan Byrne <jonathan@RemoveThisToMailMe.yamame.org>. BIOS 1.11 from spsuit55.exe worked perfectly using cabextract/CD method.<br />
|-<br />
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{600X}} (2645) ||<br />
*Andy Barnes <andy@RemoveThisToMailMe.itchypaws.co.uk>. As per Jonathan above, extracted BIOS 1.11 from spsuit55.exe using cabextract, created a CD boot image and burnt to CD. Worked flawlessly - thanks to everyone who contributed to this article!<br />
|-<br />
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{A20p}} (2629-6VU) ||<br />
*Chris Pickett http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/~cpicke/. BIOS 1.11 flashed fine with cabextract/CD method.<br />
|-<br />
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{A21e}} (2628-JXU) ||<br />
*Amit Gurdasani <gurdasani at yahoo dot com>. BIOS 1.13 flashed fine with cabextract/CD method. Alarmingly, after the BIOS update, the laptop beeped but did not shut down as was indicated onscreen -- that was frozen on the "do not shut down the laptop" screen. On power down and up again, the BIOS setup showed the newer BIOS image running, and Linux booted up fine. Linux ACPI didn't complain about the BIOS being too old either.<br />
|-<br />
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{A31p}} (2653) ||<br />
*Matthias Meinke largeeddy@gmx.at, BIOS 1.09 1NET15WW flashed fine with cabextract/CD method.<br />
|-<br />
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{A31}} (2652) ||<br />
*[[User:Wnoise|Aaron Denney]], BIOS 1.13 flashed fine with cabextract/CD method. The cabextract/CD method also worked for BIOS 1.10.<br />
|-<br />
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{R30}} ||<br />
*Jarrod, 30 August 2007, Thinkpad R30 Type 2656-E0M. BIOS updated to 1.40 (1CETF0WW) using floppy disk/mkisofs/cdrecord. Worked fine, no problems. <br />
|-<br />
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{R31}} ||<br />
*[http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/pipermail/linux-thinkpad/1998-January/009743.html Mathias Dalheimer]<br />
*Sebastian Sauer (with cabextract/CD method)<br />
|-<br />
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{R40}} ||<br />
*Matthew Lambie, http://lambie.org<br />
|-<br />
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{R50}} (1836-3SU) ||<br />
*jlbartos <jlbartos at hotmail dot com><br />
|-<br />
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{R50e}} (1834-PTG) ||<br />
*item <item at freemail dot hu> : successfully finished with cabextract/CD method for "1wuj25us.exe" (BIOS version 1WET90WW (2.10), Release Date: 2006/12/22)<br />
*Christos Nouskas <nouskas at gmail dot com>: upgraded to BIOS version 1WET90WW (2.10) and EC version 1VHT28WW (1.04) using GRUB (BIOS first / EC second)<br />
|-<br />
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{R51}} (1829) ||<br />
*Robert Uhl <rob dot uhl at gmx dot de>, Jellby <jellby at yahoo dot com><br />
|-<br />
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{R51}} (1830-RM7) ||<br />
*Will Parker <stardotstar at sourcepoint dot com dot au> successfully flashed 3.20 using existing 3.04 ECP and retained custom boot splash.<br />
|-<br />
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{R51}} (2887) ||<br />
*Ingo van Lil <inguin at gmx dot de><br />
|-<br />
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{R52}} (1858) ||<br />
*Stuart McCord <stuart dot mccord at gmail dot com> flashed both BIOS and ECP using cabextract, BIOS flashed first as on IBM website<br />
|-<br />
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T20}} ||<br />
*Franz Hassels <fhassel at suse dot com><br />
|-<br />
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T22}} ||<br />
*Daniel Maier <nusse teamidiot de><br />
*Mathias Behrle (with cabextract/CD method, Version 1.07 => 1.12) --[[User:Mathiasb|Mathiasb]] 11:58, 14 December 2006 (CET)<br />
*Bob Skaroff (cabextract/CD), 1.06 => 1.12<br />
*Leo Butler (cabextract/CD), 1.11 => 1.12 <br />
|-<br />
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T23}} ||<br />
*Bart Snapp <snapp at uiuc dot edu> Note: I followed IBM's instructions to flash the BIOS *first* and the Embedded Controller *second*.<br />
*Moy Easwaran: BIOS 1.18 / EC 1.06a via cabextract and CD-boot. The BIOS-update exe generated errors in Windows 2000.<br />
*Joe Renes: BIOS 1.18 / EC 1.06a on 2006-03-20 via cabextract and CD-boot. Piece of cake.<br />
*Raphael Errani: BIOS 1.20 / EC 1.06a on 2006-11-06 via cabextract and CD-boot (using mkisofs). Worked without errors. 1st Bios, 2nd EC<br />
*Myron Getman: BIOS 1.20 / EC 1.06a on 9/10/08 via cabextract --> k3b --> CD-boot. Worked like a charm. First BIOS update with Linux!<br />
*Leo Butler: BIOS 1.13 / EC 1.04 to 1.20/1.06a via cabextract and syslinux/memdisk boot through grub. Worked like a charm and no wasted CD.<br />
|-<br />
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T30}} ||<br />
*Martin Gühring <guehring at gmail.com> BIOS 2.10 via cabextract the Non-Diskette BIOS -> mkisofs '''in the directory the exe was extracted''' to generate the iso -> burn the iso -> boot the CD<br />
|-<br />
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T40}} ||<br />
*Sean Dague, http://dague.net<br />
*Justin Mason, http://jmason.org<br />
*Ivanhoe (Bios 3.19)<br />
*Alessandro Raulino (roger_2) EC 3.04 & BIOS 3.23 flashed with cabextract/CD method<br />
*Nick Jenkins, using BIOS 3.23 with the [[#The_Non_Diskette_Updater|Non-diskette updater + cabextract method]], then [[#Creating_a_Bootable_CD_from_a_Floppy_Image|created a bootable CD from the cabextracted .IMG file]], then boot that ISO, and it worked great!<br />
|-<br />
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T40p}} ||<br />
*Lukas Krähenbühl, ismo at pop dot agri dot ch<br />
*Thomas Achtemichuk, tom at tomchuk dot com. BIOS 3.15 flashed fine with cabextract/CD method<br />
|-<br />
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T41}} ||<br />
*Lev Givon (Bios 3.15 / EC 3.04) <lev at columbia dot edu><br />
*Ernesto Hernández-Novich (Bios 3.19 / CP 3.04) < emhn at usb dot ve ><br />
*[http://maebmij.org James Ballantine] (Bios 3.21 / CP 3.04) using nondisk/cabextract/CDRW<br />
|-<br />
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T41p}} ||<br />
*Nils Newman, work great. (Version: Bios 3.14 / Embedded Controller 3.04)<br />
|-<br />
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T42}} ||<br />
*Dan (BIOS 3.20 / EC 3.04, cabextract/CD method) <tronic171 at evilphb.org><br />
*Hirosh Dabui <hirosh@dabui.de><br />
*magarzo <mdr.magarzo at gmail.com> (BIOS v.3.23 / Embedded Controller v.3.04 / both with cabextract to non-diskette v. plus Bootable CD {T42 Type: 2373-JXG}<br />
|-<br />
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T42p}} ||<br />
*Robert Schiele <rschiele@uni-mannheim.de>, Joern Heissler <joern@heissler.de>, Hirosh Dabui <hirosh@dabui.de><br />
|-<br />
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T43}} ||<br />
*Conrad Rentsch <Conrad dot Rentsch at t-online dot de> (Version: Bios 1.29 / Embedded Controller 1.06)<br />
*Tom Heady <tom-thinkwiki.org@punch.net><br />
*Florian Boucault <florian at boucault dot ath dot cx> (Model : 1871-W34 & Version: Bios 1.23 / Embedded Controller 1.03)<br />
*Till Heikamp <t dot heikamp at geniusbytes dot com> (Model 2886, Bios 1.22 to 1.29, Embedded Controller 1.03 to 1.06)<br />
|-<br />
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T60}} ||<br />
*Roman Komkov <roman at komkov dot org dot ru> (Model 1951, Bios 1.07 to 2.13) Successfully upgraded from CD Image<br />
|-<br />
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{T61}} ||<br />
*Kai Weber <kai.weber at glorybox dot org> (Bios 1.06 to 1.26) Successfully upgraded from CD Image<br />
|-<br />
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X20}} ||<br />
*Neil Caunt <retardis at gmail dot com><br />
|-<br />
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X21}} ||<br />
*Patrick Leickner <ranma at web dot de>, (BIOS 2.21->2.25 / EC 1.31->1.36) via non-disk/cabextract/mkisofs/cdrecord<br />
|-<br />
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X22}} ||<br />
*David Emery <dave at skiddlydee dot com>, (EC 1.30, BIOS 1.32 using non-disk/cabextract/CD method)<br />
|-<br />
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X23}} ||<br />
*Nils Faerber <nils dot faerber at kernelconcepts dot de> (Embedded Controller 1.30, BIOS 1.32 with cabextract/CD method)<br />
|-<br />
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X30}} ||<br />
*Hella Breitkopf, [http://www.unixwitch.de/ www] (Embedded Controller 1.04, BIOS 1.07 with cabextract/CD method)<br />
*William Roe <willroe at gmail dot com> (Embedded Controller 1.06, BIOS 1.09 - cabextract/mkisofs/wodim)<br />
|-<br />
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X31}} ||<br />
*Grzegorz Kuśnierz <koniu at sheket dot org> (Embedded Controller 1.08, BIOS 3.01 with cabextract/CD method)<br />
|-<br />
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{X40}} ||<br />
*Robbie Stone <robbie@serendipity.cx><br />
*Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> (Fine by cabextract/CD method)<br />
|-<br />
| style="vertical-align:top;" | {{Z60m}} ||<br />
*[[User:Morle|Morle]] 01:09, 17 Nov 2007 (CEST), (Embedded Controller 1.18 and Bios 1.24 with cabextract/CD method)<br />
|}<br />
<br />
===Does not work:===<br />
{|<br />
| '''Model''' || '''Tested by'''<br />
|}<br />
<br />
Please note that testing this is '''at your own risk'''!!!<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==Updating via Grub and a Floppy Image==<br />
<br />
{{WARN|Many have warned '''not''' to use the [http://syslinux.zytor.com/ SYSLINUX] image-loader [http://syslinux.zytor.com/memdisk.php MEMDISK] to boot the images! Some flash tools may crash in that situation! Proceed at your own risk!}}<br />
<br />
Floppy images may be booted from Grub via a utility called [http://syslinux.zytor.com/memdisk.php MEMDISK], which may be compiled from the [http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/ '''SYSLINUX source''']. Copy the compiled memdisk image and the floppy image to your boot directory and configure grub as follows:<br />
<br />
<blockquote style="background: white; border: 1px solid black; padding: 1em;"><br />
<pre><nowiki><br />
title Bios Flash<br />
kernel /boot/memdisk<br />
initrd /boot/FILENAME.img<br />
</nowiki></pre></blockquote><br />
<br />
Again, proceed at your own risk. This was tested on an R51 type 2888.<br />
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This also worked for me on a T41p type 2373. -- [[User:MrStaticVoid|James Lee]] 20:55, 8 May 2006 (CEST)<br />
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And it worked for me on a X31 type 2673-CBU. -- [[User:JanTopinski|Jan Topinski]], 18 September 2006 <br />
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And it worked for me too on a X31 type 2672-CXU, very useful. -- [[User:TheAnarcat|TheAnarcat]] 16:21, 7 March 2007 (CET)<br />
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Same here (worked) on a X31 type 2673-58G --[[User:FaUl|FaUl]] 15:53, 20 June 2007 (UTC)FaUl<br />
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Works well on a X31 type 2672-PG9, but with a big moment between starting update and the updating window -- [[User:Starox|Starox]] 22 Jul 2007<br />
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And it worked for me on two X40 type 2371 -- [[User:Antialize|Jakob Truelsen]], 19 Jan 2007 -- BIOS: 2.07 1uuj21us.exe -- ECP: 1.62 1uhj10us.exe<br />
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Worked on X40 type 2386 -- [[User:Antialize|Galen Seitz]], 15 Feb 2008 -- BIOS: 2.08 1uuj22us.exe -- ECP: 1.62 1uhj10us.exe -- memdisk from syslinux 3.61<br />
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Not working for me on T43 type 2668-F7G -- [[User:Maus3273|Maus3273]] 20:48, 30 January 2007 (CET) -- BIOS: 1.29 1YUJ18US.IMG -- I got into the bios program, but the machine never restarts after initiating the upgrade.<br />
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X41 type 2525-F8G -- [[User:ladoga|Lauri Koponen]], 11:08 16 Apr 2007<br> <br />
BIOS: 2.09 (74UJ15US.IMG), is no go. (hangs while initialising the actual flashing process) I tried with 2.07 (74UJ13US.IMG) and 2.06 (74UJ12US.IMG) aswell and they all failed in the very same fashion.<br><br />
ECP: 1.02 74HJ03US.IMG, works.<br />
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It works fine on R30 type 2656-64g, BIOS v.1.40 -- [[User:english.voodoo|Yuri Spirin]], 10 May 2007.<br />
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Workes fine on T40 type 2373 with cabextracted 1RUJ37US.IMG / 1RHJ10U2.IMG and memdisk from syslinux 1:3.31-4 (Debian package version) -- [[User:Euphoria|Euphoria]] 00:10, 29 May 2008 (CEST)<br />
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Works fine on R40 type 2723 with cabextracted 1OHJ11WW.IMG/1PUJ25US.IMG, memdisk from syslinux 3.70 (slackware 12.1) -- [[User:qunying|Qunying]] 21:28, 23 Jul 2008 (PST)<br />
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Worked perfectly on a T40 type 2373 with 1RHJ10U2.IMG (3.04, 2004-11-15) and 1RUJ37US.IMG (3.23, 2007-07-03) using cabextract and memdisk from syslinux 3:1.36-4ubuntu5. [[User:Morphics|Morphics]] 10:58, 20 Aug 2008 (BST)<br />
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Worked perfectly on a T41p type 2373 with 1RUJ37US.IMG (3.23, 2007-07-03) using cabextract and memdisk from syslinux 3.71 on gentoo linux. --[[User:Deggel|Deggel]] 21:03, 22 September 2008 (CEST)<br />
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==Updating with Network Boot Image==<br />
<br />
BIOS, Embedded Controller (EC), CD/DVD and Harddisk firmware disks can be booted<br />
over the network with [http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php PXELINUX] as part of the [http://syslinux.zytor.com/ SYSLINUX] package.<br />
<br />
This requires that you have a DHCP and tftp server configured and setup properly on<br />
your network, and is probably not for the faint of heart.<br />
<br />
Make sure the firmware bootdisk is in linux 'dd' format, as the self-extracting .exe disks<br />
from the IBM website cannot be booted directly as such.<br />
<br />
This worked on the {{R31}}, {{X22}}, {{T21}}, {{T30}} and {{T41p}} with various firmware updates.<br />
<br />
<br />
On {{X22}}, works with EC 1.30 but NOT with BIOS 1.32<br />
<br />
==Updating via "IBM Predesktop area", suitable for model X (not have CDROM and floppy)==<br />
It's so difficult to update BIOS and ECP without cdrom, floppy disk.<br />
Don't know the reason why I couldn't update BIOS and ECP(1QHJ08US and 1QUJ19US) for my IBM Thinkpad X31.Hmm, may be cause of the dividing partition on my hard disk, that is: <br />
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<pre><nowiki><br />
Primary: ext3, ext3, ntfs<br />
Extended: Ntsf, fat32<br />
Bootloader: GRUB<br />
</nowiki></pre></blockquote><br />
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No problem, you can use this way to do it:<br />
* First, config in BIOS<br />
In Security part:<br />
# Remove all password of Subpervisor and Power on password<br />
# Set Access IBM Predesktop Area to Normal<br />
# Choose Enable "Flash BIOS updating by End User" in BIOS update Option.<br />
<br />
In Config part:<br />
# Choose Enable for Network flash over Lan<br />
<br />
* Second, download the newest version of BIOS update and ECP update <br />
Running: The program extract all files to the folder. There is a .img file (1QUJ19US.IMG, 1QUJ08US.IMG) in each folder.<br />
Copy the imformation content in that img file and paste it to one FAT partition(using winimage or TotalCmd to extract) <br />
<br />
<br />
as seen All files in 1QUJ19US.IMG is extracted to D:\BIOS<br />
<blockquote style="background: white; border: 1px solid black; padding: 1em;"><br />
<pre><nowiki><br />
695,764 $018E000.FL1<br />
163 0691.HSH<br />
2,049 0691.PAT<br />
163 0694.HSH<br />
2,049 0694.PAT<br />
163 0695.HSH<br />
2,049 0695.PAT<br />
2,049 06D0.PAT<br />
163 06D1.HSH<br />
2,049 06D1.PAT<br />
163 06D2.HSH<br />
2,049 06D2.PAT<br />
163 06D6.HSH<br />
2,049 06D6.PAT<br />
2,049 06D8.PAT<br />
697 CHKBMP.EXE<br />
8,128 COMMAND.COM<br />
26 CONFIG.SYS<br />
24,860 FLASH2.EXE<br />
26 LCREFLSH.BAT<br />
170 LOGO.BAT<br />
330 LOGO.SCR<br />
111,925 PHLASH16.EXE<br />
91,648 PREPARE.EXE<br />
45 PROD.DAT<br />
22,252 QKFLASH.EXE<br />
9,923 README.TXT<br />
4,260 TPCHKS.EXE<br />
39,666 UPDTFLSH.EXE<br />
6,958 UPDTMN.EXE<br />
12,501 USERINT.EXE<br />
15,254 UTILINFO.EXE<br />
</nowiki></pre></blockquote><br />
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And all files in 1QUJ08US.IMG are: D:\ECP<br />
<blockquote style="background: white; border: 1px solid black; padding: 1em;"><br />
<pre><nowiki><br />
315,404 $018E000.FL2<br />
8,000 COMMAND.COM<br />
36 CONFIG.SYS<br />
16,910 ECFLASH2.EXE<br />
45 PROD.DAT<br />
17,812 QKFLASH.EXE<br />
990 README.TXT<br />
4,260 TPCHKS.EXE<br />
89,738 UPDTEC.EXE<br />
31,134 UPDTFLSH.EXE<br />
12,501 USERINT.EXE<br />
15,226 UTILINFO.EXE<br />
</nowiki></pre></blockquote><br />
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* Okie, now plug AC Adapter, charge full battery to your laptop and continue third step:<br />
<br />
** '''Flash BIOS first,'''<br />
1. Power On, press blue button on keyboard: '''Access IBM'''<br />
<br />
2. On "Utilities", double click " Diagnostic disk"<br />
<br />
3. Your laptop will start PC-DOS, wait when this message appear:<br />
<blockquote style="background: white; border: 1px solid black; padding: 1em;"><br />
<pre><nowiki><br />
Please insert the first floppy diskette and<br />
Press any key to continue<br />
</nowiki></pre></blockquote><br />
<br />
4. Press Ctrl + Break, you will see :<br />
<blockquote style="background: white; border: 1px solid black; padding: 1em;"><pre><nowiki>Terminate batch job (Y/N) ?</nowiki></pre></blockquote><br />
<br />
5. Okie, press Y, you will get DOS prompt like D:\<br />
{{NOTE|D:\ is my RAMDISK, C:\ is my disk format as FAT.!}}<br />
<br />
6. Enter to c:\BIOS<br />
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<pre><nowiki><br />
c:<br />
cd c:\BIOS<br />
</nowiki></pre></blockquote><br />
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7. Run FLASH2.EXE /u $018E000.FL1<br />
<br />
8. Wait flash progress compelete and reboot.<br />
** '''Flash ECP'''<br />
Follow above instruction from step 1 to 5<br />
<br />
6. Enter to c:\ECP<br />
<blockquote style="background: white; border: 1px solid black; padding: 1em;"><br />
<pre><nowiki><br />
c:<br />
cd c:\ECP<br />
</nowiki></pre></blockquote><br />
<br />
7. run UPDTFLSH.EXE $018E000.FL2<br />
<br />
8. Follow UPDTFLSH's instructions<br />
<br />
9. Wait flash complete and auto turn off computer.<br />
<br />
I done it on my IBM Thinkpad X31.<br />
<br />
Enjoy,<br />
<br />
Tested by nm.<br />
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==After updating==<br />
===DMI IDs===<br />
Please consider updating the [[List of DMI IDs]] after (and before) updating your BIOS.<br />
<br />
==Check List==<br />
<br />
The following is important to remember:<br />
# You must update '''both''' the Control Program and the BIOS at the same time if your current Control Program is not compatible with the new BIOS (see below)<br />
# You must find versions of the Control Program and BIOS that are compatible. Not all of them are, so follow the readmes on the IBM website carefully to determine which are.<br />
# You must update the Control Program '''before''' you update the BIOS<br />
<br />
When the Control Program '''and''' the BIOS need updating, have both update disks or CDs ready. Update the Control Program first and the system should switch itself off when finished. Insert the BIOS update disk and proceed to update the BIOS. When it's all finished, enter setup, reset the settings to their defaults and reboot. Enter setup again and tweak the settings as necessary.</div>Andy Shevchenko