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Anonymous_Coward
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 Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 6:54 pm Post subject: T60 not posting |
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Hi, hope you can help.
I have bought a thinkpad T60 widescreen from auction. When I plug in power, power led come on and then I press power button, other lights go on for second, fan turns for a second then nothing happens. Power led goes out, no leds at all on, laptop dead. I have to remove power and reinsert to get it light up for that second again.
It seems like BIOS corrupted, removing CMOS battery etc no good, cycling power button etc no good. Do you have method to reflash BIOS without power etc? No of a motherboard supplier? (42w2203)
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victor
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| Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2009 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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Hello,
We have a new software product (SPEG/SFprog) that can read/flash any type of BIOS flash, is not launched just yet, I am working to complete all the tests.
The main problem here is that BIOS code needs to be the original one, not just any code becuse it is married to the TCPA chip. Besides, I am not sure if the problem occured due to a corrupt BIOS, some more investigation needs to be done, tough
Till then I move this post to hardware section of our forums..
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Anonymous_Coward
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| Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 10:32 am Post subject: |
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I am not sure if the problem occured due to a corrupt BIOS, some more investigation needs to be done, though
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Hi Victor, thanks for the reply.
If you don't think it is from a corrupted bios, what do you think it may be and what tests would need to done to see what the problem is.
If I can get away with not replacing the motherboard i will be happy.
The reason I suspect bios is that I have a similar set of symptoms on my desktop PC. After adjusting the bios CPU multiplier to far, it would not boot and I had to remove the CMOS battery and hold a sequence of keys (Ctl+Alt+Home I think) to resett. I don't really won't to experiment to much and end up waking up the TCPA protections but if I do, I know where I will going to set that right! 
Thanks for any help that you or any of your forumites can provide.
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Reo51st
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| Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 10:17 pm Post subject: |
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Make sure there is memory in the laptop.
Located under the mouse pad.
Check if it is still under warrenty.
Go to Lenovo.com and click on warrenty.
It should be under warrenty till next year.
Good luck.
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victor
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If it was a bad BIOS update, we can repair the original code and preserve the TCPA signature to avoid drawing the 0192 error, yes we can do that now.
You will need our programmer SPEG that can read the serial flash in system by using a pomona clip.
Nobody can tell for sure it is BIOS or not, until you do it..
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