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Post by pharrisire on Nov 3, 2011 15:18:04 GMT -5
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Re: Laptop doesn't shut down with KNOS RC1 either.
« Reply #20 on Mar 9, 2011, 3:02pm »
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Now that the laptop is 100% KNOS, I went back to Lenovo to
try to upgrade the BIOS - but everything there only works
with Internet Explorer, so what is the procedure to
upgrade BIOS thru KNOS?
Would that program you added in RC1 help in any way?
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Post by Kevin McAleavey on Nov 4, 2011 0:27:16 GMT -5
[[ from back in the archives: Re: Laptop doesn't shut down with KNOS RC1 either. « Reply #20 on Mar 9, 2011, 3:02pm » "" "" ]] Now that the laptop is 100% KNOS, I went back to Lenovo to try to upgrade the BIOS - but everything there only works with Internet Explorer, so what is the procedure to upgrade BIOS thru KNOS? Would that program you added in RC1 help in any way? Wow things have changed there.  Looks like they're now using a thing called "WinPhlash" ... IBM never did that before. The EXE that you downloaded was a floppy disk image and all you needed to do was let it make the floppy then reboot into it and it ran a LINUX thing that did the BIOS update. I imagine that it might be runnable from WINE, but the 2 meg image for the BIOS is definitely bigger than the old 1.44 floppy and so I'd be very careful about even trying it without Windows and the ability to at least back up the existing BIOS first just so it can be put back in. They don't even have an option to boot from MSDOS or other OS in their design. Just checked with Lenovo ... ONLY Windows is supported. About the only thing I could find was this: forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo-3000-and-Value-line/How-can-I-Install-BIOS-Upgrade-without-windows-installed/td-p/8106Apologies for this ... this is just plain stupid. I suppose MY next machine won't be a Lenovo. |
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