Re: [Thinkpad] Fwd: Re: T41p: HMD diskette

Turn off quick boot in the BIOS
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Webber" <awebber@wwwebbers.com>
To: "ThinkPad List" <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2007 5:28 PM
Subject: [Thinkpad] Fwd: Re: T41p: HMD diskette

> This is a forwarded message
> Originally From: Andrew Webber <awebber@wwwebbers.com>
> Originally To: thinkpad@stderr.org
> Date: Saturday, July 14, 2007, 3:15:45 PM
> Subject: [Thinkpad] T41p: HMD diskette
>
> [I posted this earlier but haven't seen it on the list =aw]
>
> ===8<==============Original message text===============
> This is not going well. :(
>
>
> First, I tried a copy of v1.74 that someone mailed me. It installed
> onto a floppy disk and when I rebooted (cold boot, power off, press
> ESC key when I see IBM logo), it launched into a menu:
>
> >1. Set System Identification
> >2. Test the audio feature
> >3. Format the hard disk
> >4. Assign UUID
> >5. Erase Predesktop Area
> >6. Set ECA infomration.
>
> I chose #1 and got this message in reply:
>
> >Warning! EEPROM is write-protected. Please power off and on, then
> >try to press ESC key when IBM Logo is displayed.
>
> I had already pressed ESC when the colour IBM ThinkPad logo came up,
> but I tried again when the white IBM logo came up (when the DOS app
> launched). I tried as soon as either logo came up, and just before
> either logo disappeared (I was getting good at judging how long the
> logo would be visible). Nothing I tried would make it work!
>
>
> Then I formatted the floppy again and tried the version 1.72
> downloaded and discussed earlier. There's no installer but I copied
> all the files (except INFO.TXT and INFORMATION.TXT which seem to be
> from the person who posted it). When I rebooted I got "Non-system
> disk or disk error". I reformatted the floppy as a bootable disk, and
> not all the files would fit. It would boot the T41p, but it said
> "Windows Millenium" and gave me an A:\ prompt, which I don't think is
> right.
>
>
> ISTM the behaviour of the v1.74 is what's expected, except for the
> write-protected EEPROM. Can anyone suggest a solution? Would
> IBM/Lenovo/EasyServ/whatever fix this under warranty? I don't want to
> take it in, and I'd rather get it working myself of course.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Andrew mailto:awebber@wwwebbers.com
>
> Wednesday, July 11, 2007, 1:41:39 PM, you wrote:
>
> > Thanks, Bob.
>
> >> I've looked at every string in all of the files that make up
> >> the HMD diskette, and I'm convinced it's the genuine article.
> >> If one is not concerned about violating all of the IBM
> >> copyright notices sprinkled throughout the files, go to it. I
> >> can see why the poster of it did so. Feel free to post this to
> >> the list - I've lost the thread. Bob Stockler
>
> > For the record, the poster of the file
> > included this info.txt file in the archive:
>
> > "The origins of this distribution goes back to IBM's default on my
> > laptop. When they replaced the motherboard, they didn't reload the
> > system-type serial number. Following year, when the warranty was
> > over, I had to reinstall the OS. To my surprise, Lenovo's driver
> > packages wouldn't work with my machine since they can't read the
> > system type information from my motherboard. When I called IBM,
> > they said since it was out of warranty, even though it was their
> > mistake, they wouldn't correct the problem. And, here we are
> > talking about a two minute process, pop-in a floppy disk, enter
> > the serial number, pop-out a floppy disk. For this reason, I
> > decided to get this 'confidential' disk from somewhere else. I
> > found this guy selling it on ebay, so I decided to buy it and
> > distribute it for the benefit of people who are cheated by IBM..."
> > "Enjoy it!
> > "K."
>
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