Re: [Thinkpad] T41p: Problem updating BIOS

Thanks Bruce, that's great news.

I googled and found an HMD image but it's v1.72. Does that sound okay
or could it be a fraud? It was posted in Dec 2005.

Guess I'll have to wait a couple of weeks until I get to my floppy
drive. Luckily everything (except updating) seems to be working okay
right now.

-- 
 Andrew                            mailto:awebber@wwwebbers.com
Saturday, July 7, 2007, 10:13:15 AM, you wrote:
> Well there is your problem, the uuid can be blank, but if you don't
> have a type-partnumber-serial in the BIOS you can not update. You
> need the Hardware Maintenance Disk v 1.69
> the format to enter the important line is
> 1Stypepartserial
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Andrew Webber" <awebber@wwwebbers.com>
> To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 11:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] T41p: Problem updating BIOS
>> When I go into System Information in AccessIBM on startup, the System
>> Information box has "Machine type" and "Serial number" as blanks, and
>> "UUID" as all zeroes.
>>
>> Should the first two have values?  How can I set them?
>>
>> And should UUID be something other than zeroes?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> -- 
>>  Andrew                            mailto:awebber@wwwebbers.com
>>
>> Friday, July 6, 2007, 11:10:55 PM, you wrote:
>>
>> > The next lower version is 3.21 which is my current.  I ran it anyway
>> > and the same thing happened (no DOS level utility).
>>
>> > Nothing in the drive, nothing in the USB ports.
>>
>> > I actually feel slightly better because it's not like the utility is
>> > failing to change the BIOS, it's not trying.  Still a problem
>> > though.
>>
>> > You said if it's the wrong version (it's not), it wouldn't install.
>> > Could this be related to the problem with System Update, where it's
>> > telling me the type is TP-1R___?  I don't know what that should say,
>> > but whatever it should be (unless it's right) maybe the BIOS utility
>> > is expecting that too?  And failing to be told whatever the value is
>> > supposed to be for a T41p, abandoning the update?
>>
>> > If so, I'm back to figuring out what that TP-1R___ is. :(
>>
>>
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