From: Shawn Lin (slin01_at_mail.orion.org)
Date: Sat Nov 25 2000 - 05:05:47 EST
Sashka wrote:
>
> As far as I can remember, 600e and 600x are almost same. the only
> difference I found is BIOS and 600e has 32mb onboard and 600x has 64.
> I'm sure, that if I will find way to flash 600x bios in to 600e I will
> get it work. Anyway, this notebook I brought only for testing this
> thing. It works now, but I have to press few buttons to boot in
> Windows. And computer works at 100mhz bus.
Have you tried downloading the 600X BIOS update disk, and the 600E BIOS
update disk, then renaming the 600X BIOS file to the same name as the
600E file, and then copying it to the 600E BIOS disk? I know on my
ThinkPad 560X, the flash ROM image is a file ending in .$fl or .fl$ or
something like that.
I personally would not try it myself without being 100% sure that the
motherboards use the same chipset, same I/O chipset, same Cardbus slot
controller, same graphics chip, etc. You could permanently disable your
computer, making it necessary to remove/reprogram the BIOS chip.
> So far, I can see few problems: on board memory might not work on
> 100mhz bus. But mine, looks like working.
>
> And one more thing. Does anyone know what means error 127 after
> memory test? Where can I find list of this error messages? Or should I
> call IBM support to find out that?
Personally, I wouldn't worry about it. After all, you said it works and
it boots. So Win2000Pro doesn't recognize it as a PIII, I don't think
that'll really affect much. You got lucky that it works at all. :)
Shawn
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