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- * [[BIOS Upgrade]] <tt>(How to keep your ThinkPad's BIOS up to date)</tt><br /> * [[Custom BIOS]] <tt>(Modified BIOS images to remove restrictions and errors)</tt><br />6 KB (893 words) - 22:27, 17 September 2022
- * [[BIOS_Upgrade | BIOS Updates]] [http://www-3.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIG You might want to change your [[IRQ]] settings in BIOS5 KB (708 words) - 16:59, 16 February 2009
- After that, i've disabled the predesktop area from IBM using the BIOS. After this, when you push the "Access IBM" button, you have a simple black ...ication, when I close the lid, the computer goes into supsend mode, waking up perfectly well when opening it. The power management is done by APM (i've t7 KB (1,170 words) - 16:58, 16 February 2009
- 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 t Updating the BIOS in Linux (with few exceptions) '''is not officially supported''' by Lenovo.29 KB (4,865 words) - 00:12, 27 February 2022
- * George Tellalov <gtellalov_dontspamme@bigfoot.com>. BIOS 1.16 from spsdin36.exe worked perfectly with the method bootable cd from fl * Mike Vincent<matchstc-putobvioushere.com>. Bios 1.16 from spsdin36.exe and then to the boot cd worked great for me. Thought19 KB (2,654 words) - 19:39, 4 May 2017
- I had some trouble with X hanging up when switching twice to the terminal and back, which vanished sometime duri You should set IRDA to enabled in the BIOS settings, since Linux has no way of enabling it when it's in OS controlled11 KB (1,973 words) - 17:55, 30 August 2008
- NOTE: This version of Embedded Controller Program will only work with BIOS Version 3.06f (or higher). ====BIOS upgrade====14 KB (2,274 words) - 21:34, 10 December 2011
- ...en, then you possibly need to change the boot device configuration in your BIOS and make the CD drive the first boot disk. ...lf to the nvram group. This way you don't have to do it everytime you boot up.11 KB (1,570 words) - 12:06, 18 June 2015
- ...oot from '''UEFI only'''. You must enable '''Legacy''' boot option in the BIOS before you can begin installing Ubuntu.}} # Enable Legacy boot in BIOS13 KB (1,880 words) - 04:30, 29 January 2013
- ...xpected Fn + function keys, however only 6 levels are detected. To control up to 16 levels of brightness, you can add the {{bootparm|acpi_backlight|vendo ...patible card as this system uses BIOS whitelisting. There isn't a modified BIOS available yet (as of Jan 15 2013).2 KB (307 words) - 04:17, 22 January 2013
- * BIOS version: {{todo|Check}} ...USB stick. If one doesn't work, try another. It needs to be recognized in BIOS as a "USB Hard Drive" with a plus sign in front.4 KB (660 words) - 12:12, 18 June 2015
- Another trick that will often work is changing the BIOS settings such that the external monitor is used as the default device durin If you experience trouble getting the ATI Control Center to come up correctly when using these patched drivers, you can make a shortcut to the9 KB (1,406 words) - 18:39, 23 November 2008
- ...tore, my preboot partition and the whole partition table were likey messed up, which may have been what caused the error. ...YS- be started by changing the boot order in the "startup sequence" of the bios leaving the CDD as the top boot device will ensure a correct recovery.4 KB (733 words) - 14:50, 27 July 2008
- First I set up the "source" machine, in my case one which already also had Ubuntu 11.04 in Second set up the X220 for PXE (Pre-boot eXecution Environment).23 KB (3,256 words) - 01:42, 26 March 2020
- ...ard alone working after switching the primary display device to PCI in the BIOS. ...utes the command giving no error but afterwards the IDE device still shows up in {{path|/proc}}.4 KB (640 words) - 09:41, 24 October 2006
- | {{key|Fn}}{{key|Home}} / {{key|Fn}}{{key|Pos1}} || brightness up || [[thinkpad-acpi]], [[#tpb configuration|tpb]], [[KMilo]] || additional a | {{ibmkey|Volume up|#494949}} || volume up || [[thinkpad-acpi]], [[#tpb configuration|tpb]], [[KMilo]] || additional a44 KB (6,541 words) - 03:13, 15 February 2016
- This page describes how to replace the standard IBM BIOS Bootsplash (The one with the ThinkPad- and Pentium M-Logo), without access ...ve a custom splash image when they start up should try [[How to change the BIOS bootsplash screen (under Windows) | this guide]] instead.15 KB (2,321 words) - 19:39, 21 January 2011
- This feature definitely depends on software and there is no hardware or BIOS-only way of making it work. ...values in order to convert the sensor readings to degrees and wrapped this up in a small graphical application for Windows. My data, source code, executa8 KB (1,264 words) - 17:02, 22 January 2021
- ...[[PC2-4200]] CL4 NP DDR2 (533 MHz) SDRAM SODIMM memory standard, supports up to 2GB maximum memory. * After the initial install, in order to get the system up to date, you will have to TWICE as root issue the command:4 KB (636 words) - 15:30, 2 March 2010
- ...ry Media. However, as long as recovery partition (called ''predesktop'' in BIOS) is left intact, system '''can be restored to factory default without havin Alternatively upgrade the BIOS to 1.0614 KB (2,010 words) - 16:07, 21 January 2011
- ...on of models, possibly leading to some confusion that is hopefully cleared up here. The following table gives an overview of the different Ultrabay types The pinout switching is performed by the BIOS and embedded controller, so that it is completely transparent to the operat17 KB (2,246 words) - 17:07, 22 January 2021
- Just finished setting this up. Legacy Bios Install worked w/ both2 KB (260 words) - 15:28, 24 February 2020
- ...tured by either Atmel or National Semiconductor, and TCG TPM PC client 1.1 BIOS extensions. ...ar the TPM chip. It is unknown if clearing the TPM chip can mess with the BIOS HDD password support, but until someone tests it, it is best to play it saf17 KB (2,805 words) - 17:03, 22 January 2021
- # won't wake up harddisks from suspend to disk unless they're set to PIO mode # Use PCMCIA_TIMEOUT in order to set up the PCMCIA timeout.12 KB (2,003 words) - 03:46, 27 November 2007
- Several people realized that their ThinkPads eat up too much power while suspended to ram via ACPI. Compared to APM suspend to ...ram just fine, and there are no components that are obviously left powered up. The [[UltraBay]] and network light is on, but that is the same under windo12 KB (1,861 words) - 23:40, 28 October 2009
- ===Update BIOS=== ACPI requires a relatively new BIOS version. In particular, if you get the message,8 KB (1,261 words) - 03:24, 28 October 2015
- ...s newer kernel option is more aware of acpi powersaving that's done in the BIOS. In any case, both {{kernelconf|CONFIG_X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO|<*>|||||}} an ...quency scaling daemons, but in kernel). They differs in the way they scale up and down. The ondemand governor switches to the highest frequency immediate13 KB (1,937 words) - 20:20, 10 February 2011
- When the CPU freq jumps up to 1Ghz or above, or when the laptop is in suspend mode ...screeching sounds *solved by "Media player paused" (see below) and also by BIOS versions 1.05 and later.22 KB (3,464 words) - 04:09, 22 January 2014
- This happens directly after starting up: even the BIOS splash screen is unreadable. The screen can stay garbled for a number of bo9 KB (1,597 words) - 17:40, 16 November 2016
- logger "Woke up from suspend." On the X32, at least, the bios will switch off the screen by default on a lid close, and suspending to ram4 KB (581 words) - 19:47, 14 January 2011
- '''# use bios hot keys on thinkpad (aka fn+f7)''' ...ank' LCD panel problem when I plug the external monitor in before powering up. (Radeon 9600 M10 [RV350] with xorg 7.0.0). However - if you want anythin9 KB (1,249 words) - 01:57, 27 June 2009
- ...possible to check if any of the drive's attributes related to platter spin-up/down or head unload are increasing when a click is heard. That can help pin ...esuming from disk or RAM, after hotswapping, and ''every time the ThinkPad BIOS might try to override them''. This is done in two steps: changing the defau18 KB (2,917 words) - 05:39, 14 April 2012
- ...the restore-partition on the harddrive. I also changed the IRQ settings in BIOS from 11 to Auto. Not sure if you have to, but I read that you should somewh Boot up the Debian Installation CD. Remember to boot the CD up with "linux26" to get the 2.6.x kernel directly.4 KB (694 words) - 16:56, 16 February 2009
- ...fine for DOS, but not a modern OS. You can buy a 32MB DRAM card, bringing up the total to 36MB, which is just enough to run a few useful tasks. ...can use 8GB of capacity. Linux and other modern OSes can use larger disks (up to 137GiB) but the boot partition must be entirely below the 8GB boundary.5 KB (950 words) - 13:20, 20 January 2006
- ...ives. The mounting nibs (replaced by screws in later machines) do not line up with holes in newer drives. You may have to modify a caddy by removing the ...s the BIOS, such as Windows using a 32-bit driver or Linux can use a drive up to 137GB in capacity, but the boot partition must be completely below the 87 KB (1,176 words) - 18:21, 8 April 2009
- ...before the sound would work in linux. (Hold F1 while booting to get to the BIOS menu) After the reinitialization, I modprobed: ...as 93 degrees Celsius when compiling and CPU intensive operations. I ended up writing a cron script to run every minute and check if the temperature is o5 KB (825 words) - 10:08, 18 October 2006
- ...d Mini-Dock]] has (Passthrogh: Ethernet, Modem, [[DVI Port|DVI]] (supports up to SXGA resolution), [[VGA Port|VGA]], [[Serial Port|Serial]], [[Parallel P Dimensions are up to 18 x 12 cm:13 KB (2,042 words) - 17:18, 6 April 2014
- ...kill the 5 GB pre desktop area partition hidden on the disk by going into BIOS Setup and turning the partition off, allowing you to easily overwrite the d ...ed into the install environment (There's really not much that can go wrong up till now) there are a few options you have to configure before bootstraping34 KB (5,558 words) - 16:49, 20 October 2006
- -s N Shift up the min temperature thresholds by N degrees -S N Shift up the max temperature thresholds by N degrees10 KB (1,551 words) - 18:06, 16 February 2011
- ...dows installation for dual booting. I kept mine just so I could update the BIOS more easily in case it becomes necessary. ...arby devices. My Sony Ericsson T630 was found immediately and I could back up its contens using MultiSync.9 KB (1,447 words) - 16:56, 16 February 2009
- * LEDs might not light up: see http://madwifi-project.org/wiki/UserDocs/EnableLEDs * {{R40}} (2681-GCJ - works with 1.27 BIOS)2 KB (251 words) - 13:23, 16 November 2020
- ...r {{cmdroot|echo mem > /sys/power/state}} (machine goes to sleep and wakes up immediately). This can be avoided by using {{cmdroot|echo -n 3 >/proc/acpi/ ;Hangs on "switching to UP code":You may be using a [[How to make use of Dynamic Frequency Scaling|fre12 KB (1,983 words) - 15:06, 7 October 2010
- ...s partition. The Windows NTFS and IBM system restore FAT32 partitions take up 2/4 primary paritions, which doesn't leave much room for expansion. Between ...ower than the outside (first sectors), so put frequently accessed portions up front.10 KB (1,702 words) - 17:00, 16 February 2009
- Note: I upgraded BIOS to latest version (1.18) but still no luck. OpenGL (DRI?) hardlocks after h ...is still running fine behind it). With savagefb it won't even try to wake up.2 KB (354 words) - 15:01, 22 January 2021
- The symptom might have you think first that your system hang up, but you will realize that your ThinkPad works and you can even reset it vi *ThinkPad {{R31}}, {{R50e}}{{footnote|1}}, {{R50p}}, {{R51}} (with BIOS 1.11), {{R52}}, {{R60}}, {{R61}}16 KB (2,636 words) - 09:33, 23 September 2020
- ...ubsystem|TPM (security subsystem)]] || {{Cyes}} || Enable security chip in BIOS, then "yum install tpm-tools", then "modprobe tpm_atmel; service tcsd start | {{key|Fn}}{{key|Home}} || brightness up || - || {{Cno}} || {{Cyes}} || no OSD8 KB (1,198 words) - 12:30, 7 December 2011
- ...age gives an overview on hexadecimal and beep error codes generated by the BIOS or UEFI. | 0 beeps || cooling fan spins up<br>power-on LED status indicator is lit green or amber ||29 KB (4,174 words) - 15:27, 3 October 2020
- On at least one 600E, with kernels up to 2.6.24.x and ALSA versions up to 1.0.17 (compiled and installed out-of-kernel), one of the working setups This chip is software configurable. In Thinkpads, the BIOS sets up the chip if fast boot is disabled. If fast boot is enabled, the chip is dis4 KB (645 words) - 15:21, 15 November 2020
- ...ne but LILO loads the kernel bz image slowly but after boot init it speeds up again. You cannot flash BIOS with docking station. (It will detect it and reject)3 KB (411 words) - 23:39, 9 September 2009
- Mine came with Windows XP, which took up the entire 60GB hard disk. I needed to resize the NTFS partition. Did this * F12 during bootup to configure BIOS options to boot from CDROM988 bytes (148 words) - 21:46, 15 July 2010
