No RAID option in Thinkpad W520 BIOS

There is no RAID option in my Thinkpad W520 BIOS
I only get the "ACHI" and "Compatibility" mode.
I intended to put two SSDs in RAID 0 and did not want to buy 2 mechanical HDDs.
It appears that you only get the "RAID" controller when you order the W520 with 2 mechanical HDDs and let Lenovo configure the RAID for you .
I may have to send my unit back. I am VERY disappointed that this was not made clear at the Point of Sale.
My UEFI BIOS Version 1.06 - BIOS Date 2011-03-02
W520 4270CTO i7-2820QM Quadro2000M 1920x1080 Display 16GB RAM 2x240GB Intel 510 SSDs (RAID 0) - BIOS 1.42 - PCMark7:4,568
Samsung Series 9 15-inch NP900X4C-A03US - PCMark7: 4674

I think the language has been changed. It now says; Internal RAID: not enabled or Internal RAID: configured by Lenovo.
When I ordered it said something more like Internal RAID: user configured or Internal RAID: preconfigured by Lenovo.
I do forget the exact wording, but the old wording pretty clearly indicated you had it but it was just not yet configured.
My actual order however says: Internal RAID not configured.
Perry
Perry
W520, I7 2720QM, M4 512 GB SSD OS/Program Disk, C300 256 GB Data Disk in Ultrabay Caddy; X220, I7 2620, Samsung 256 GB SSD, Intel 310 mSata Drv, T61, ancient but working, Asus MoBo, I7 2600k overclocked

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Hello, I have Thinkpad W520. I'm interested two things. First is CPU upgrade. Which is highest CPU for this model? And Can I upgrade to 3rd generation CPU? As I see Ivy Bridge CPU use same socket. Second is RAID. I havent RAID option on my laptop. Is it possible to add this option?And last question I have warranty. Is it possible throught warranty upgrade CPU and setup RAID? Of course not for free.
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Configuring the system UEFI BIOS to enable embedded SATA RAID functionality
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critical_ wrote:
harrisb wrote:
Yes, the W530 will boot from the USB CD ROM
Yes it can boot from USB CDROM but there are a few caveats to watch for. On the W520, a USB CDROM fails to load any recovery system that uses WindowsPE. The only way around this is to use an optical drive attached to the eSATA port.
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The W530 has native USB 3.0 support and will support booting the system in WPE. I believe that the original system concerned the W530.
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New W520 BIOS 1.37 has been posted:

New W520 BIOS 1.37 has been posted:
http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub...s/8buj15us.exe
http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub...s/8buj15us.txt
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Hurrah!!!! and thank you Lenovo! (especially "someotherguy")
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Perhaps the memory clock limit was to address a possible cause of the SSS issue. I've been running 1.37 with Crucial 4x8 gb SODIMMs w/o any issue. They are capable of running at 761MHz but are being clocked at 664.6 Mhz. Not a big deal for me.
huberth wrote:
New W520 BIOS 1.37 has been posted:
http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub...s/8buj15us.exe
http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub...s/8buj15us.txt
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hibernation state after running Setup Defaults by the F9 key in the ThinkPad
Setup menu.
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work.
Although there is no mention of it above, BIOS 1.37 fixed the "50 second cold-boot start-up delay" issue with my Intel 510 SSD.
Hurrah!!!! and thank you Lenovo! (especially "someotherguy")
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For example my ThinkPad W520 includes (but not limited to) these parts:
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Express Card Slot & 4 in 1 Card Reader
Question: Where are they? Why missing?
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[B][U]The ThinkPad W520 I've order: [/U][/B]
Part Number: 4270CTO
ThinkPad W520 - 1 Yr Depot Topseller Warranty
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Operating system: ThinkPad PC DOS License
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System graphics: NVIDIA Quadro 2000M Graphics with 2GB DDR3 Memory
Total memory: 4 GB DDR3 - 1333MHz (1 DIMM)
Keyboard: Keyboard US English
Pointing device: [B][COLOR="SeaGreen"]UltraNav with TrackPoint & touchpad[/COLOR][/B]
Camera: 720p Camera
Storage subsystem: Internal RAID - Not Enabled
Hard drive: 320 GB Hard Disk Drive, 7200rpm
Optical device: DVD Recordable
System expansion slots: [B][COLOR="SeaGreen"]Express Card Slot & 4 in 1 Card Reader[/COLOR][/B]
Battery: 9 cell Li-Ion Battery - 55++
Power cord: Country Pack North America with Line cord & 170W AC adapter
Bluetooth: Bluetooth 3.0
Integrated WiFi wireless LAN adapters: Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 (3x3 AGN)
Integrated mobile broadband: Integrated Mobile Broadband - Upgradable
Language pack: Language Pack US English
[B][U]ThinkPad W520 shown under Lenovo Order Status:[/U][/B]
4270CT       CONFIGURED SYSTEM
0A68541       SBB ICI7-2720QM
27R1799       VBB PC DOS LICENSE
39T7676       SBB DOS 2000 FLYER - NO
0A68535       SBB 15.6FHD ([B][COLOR="Red"]1900 X 1080[/COLOR][/B]) LED
0A68894       SBB NVQ2000M GR
45M4572       VBB 4GBPC3-10600DDR3 1333SODMM
45M4839       SBB KEYBOARDUS ENGLISH
0A68527       VBB NO FINGERPRINT READER
0A68558       SBB 720P HD CAM INT MICR
0A69620       SBB I RAID-NOT EN
0A68552       SBB 320GB HDD7200RPM
0A71939       SBB DVDRECORDABLE
0A68529       VBB ECS+4IN1CR
45M4816       SBB 9CELLLI-ION BATTERY
0A68904       SBB CPNAMLC+ 170W AC AD
0A68261       SBB BLUETOOTH 3.0
45M4804       SBB IN.CENT.ULTIMATE-N 6300
44C7950       SBB INT WRLSSWDAREANTWRK UPGR
0A68564       SBB LANG PCK US E

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Anway, I'm tried to install Winxp 64 bit and to install driver , But no any driver work fine else the Network Ethernal adapater.
I don't know what is the problem i made update for Winodws .
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And for sure i change this option in BIOS , Disable the optumus from BIOS, and make it discrete graphics.
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Thank u.

While I never tried Winxp64 bit on my W520, I have tried using it before. It has a lot of driver issues like that because it was a very rare products so most 64bit drivers where desined for vista and up(Same with a lot of 64bit programs). Some will work but most have installer checks that have to be tricked into thinking that you are on a vista or higher machine. Most won't however do to the major changes that happened in vista and windows 7. That combined with the fact that I found Xp 64bit very unstable just on its on made me move away from it. Personally I feel that the changes Microsoft made in Windows 7 (both under the hood and UI) have major benifits and see very little reason to try to stick with xp.
Is there a reason that you need XP?

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Hello all,
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Any thoughts or ideas would be helpful, it appears my Google-Fu has failed me as well.
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I figured it out. It's laughably easy. Download the keyboard hotkey drivers and install them. It'll allow you to use the Functions at the top of your keyboard, then after you restart, hit Fn+F5 and you'll get a menu to enable Bluetooth on the OS, then Win7 should detect and install the drivers for it, or you can download the ones from Lenovo's site.

Wifi scans but fails to connect on Thinkpad W520

Running Network Manager on a Lenovo Thinkpad W520 and able to scan but unable to connect to wifi. Wifi works fine in dualboot on Windows, and ethernet works fine in both.
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03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 (rev 35)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 3x3 AGN
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 35
Region 0: Memory at d5300000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
$ sudo systemctl status NetworkManager-wait-online.service
● NetworkManager-wait-online.service - Network Manager Wait Online
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/NetworkManager-wait-online.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun 2014-12-21 22:58:55 EST; 12min ago
Main PID: 500 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Dec 21 22:58:55 Defiant systemd[1]: NetworkManager-wait-online.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Dec 21 22:58:55 Defiant systemd[1]: Failed to start Network Manager Wait Online.
Dec 21 22:58:55 Defiant systemd[1]: Unit NetworkManager-wait-online.service entered failed state.
Dec 21 22:58:55 Defiant systemd[1]: NetworkManager-wait-online.service failed.
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Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/NetworkManager-dispatcher.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: inactive (dead)
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● NetworkManager.service - Network Manager
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since Sun 2014-12-21 22:58:23 EST; 13min ago
Main PID: 341 (NetworkManager)
CGroup: /system.slice/NetworkManager.service
└─341 /usr/bin/NetworkManager --no-daemon
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Dec 21 23:10:12 Defiant NetworkManager[341]: <info> (wlp3s0): device state change: ip-config -> failed (reason 'ip-config-unavailable') [70 120 5]
Dec 21 23:10:12 Defiant NetworkManager[341]: <info> Disabling autoconnect for connection 'Bifröst'.
Dec 21 23:10:12 Defiant NetworkManager[341]: <warn> Activation (wlp3s0) failed for connection 'Bifröst'
Dec 21 23:10:12 Defiant NetworkManager[341]: <info> Activation (wlp3s0) Stage 4 of 5 (IPv6 Configure Timeout) complete.
Dec 21 23:10:12 Defiant NetworkManager[341]: <info> (wlp3s0): device state change: failed -> disconnected (reason 'none') [120 30 0]
Dec 21 23:10:12 Defiant NetworkManager[341]: <info> (wlp3s0): deactivating device (reason 'none') [0]
Dec 21 23:10:12 Defiant NetworkManager[341]: <warn> Connection disconnected (reason -3)
Dec 21 23:10:12 Defiant NetworkManager[341]: <info> (wlp3s0): supplicant interface state: completed -> disconnected
Dec 21 23:10:15 Defiant NetworkManager[341]: <warn> Could not get scan request result: Scan request rejected
Additionally, after stopping NetworkManager and trying wifi-menu, it scans correctly but fails to connect, never even prompting for a passphrase.
So I tried wpa_supplicant on its own:
$ sudo wpa_supplicant -B -i wlp3s0 -c <(wpa_passphrase "Bifr\xc3\xb6st" "mypassword")
Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant
wlp3s0: failed to initialize driver interface
For good measure:
$ rfkill list
0: tpacpi_bluetooth_sw: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
2: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
$ ip a
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: enp0s25: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether f0:de:f1:62:13:b8 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 10.0.0.11/24 brd 10.0.0.255 scope global enp0s25
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: wlp3s0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:24:d7:c6:ab:48 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
I'm at a loss. and I've googled my little heart out. Any help would be appreciated.

Welcome to the forums - and thanks for a great initial post, all the needed information seems to be here.
Specifically, the following error from wpa_supplicant will most likely be best to dig into:
wlp3s0: failed to initialize driver interface
I see several results of this error in a google search, but none of them quickly translated into solutions yet. To get some more information on it, could you run the same wpa_supplicant command, but with the verbose debugging flag "-dd" and post the ouput here?
I don't have a intel wireless card, so I don't know what the diagnostic signs are for the problem addressed in the wiki, but you may want to try the modprobe options shown in this section of the wiki.
EDIT: there is a similar but unresolved thread on these forums here which points to using the -D flag for wpa_supplicant to specify other drivers. I was thinking this too upon my first reading, but I don't fully understand what these are so I was reluctant to suggest it. It certainly can't hurt anything to use the command in the wiki to see which drivers are available, then try each one.
EDIT 2: and this thread seems to indicate that the -D flag driver specification is the right solution. So start here with the -D flag and only if that fails follow up with my initial debugging suggestions.
Last edited by Trilby (2014-12-22 12:52:13)

Thinkpad W520 with Minidock+ Series 3 - Dual monitors and USB fail sporadically

Hello there,
I wonder if anyone has experienced problems ThinkPad W520 and Mini Dock Plus Series 3 (Part number: 433830U)? I run into problems with dual monitor and USB devices.
For dual monitor setup, sometimes only a single monitor is detected, sometimes no monitors are available in the NVidia control panel. Rigorous display detection doesn't help. Disabling Optimus in BIOS doesn't seem to affect it. After I dock and undock couple of times, reboot, unplug the power cord, it seems to resolve and both monitors work fine.
Also, I run into troubles with USB devices (keyboard/mouse). Sometimes they are not detected at all, but if I plug them into different USB ports on the mini dock, they are detected and work fine.
For me this problem happens about 50% of the time when I dock... Any ideas, insights or suggestions are greatly appreciated. Could it be a faulty Thinkpad, docking station or may be both? I really to upgrade next time to W530, but I've been through so many problems with W520, so I don't know if it's a good idea...
Thanks so much.
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If system update isn't finding anything, and the system works just fine on its own, it could potentially be a faulty Dock.
It could be overloaded. Could you try testing the dock using just one monitor, and no keyboard or mouse, to see if you run into the same issue. It would still be a faulty dock, but it may be a potential workaround for the time being.

[915 Series] Why is there no RAID option?

Hi
mainboard is MS 7058 V1.0
type of mobo is 915p/g combo
it has full options, it has three IDE and four SATA connectors on board.
Bios was 1.4, and some time ago I updated to 1.7
it ran off a SATA 160 Gigabyte drive in enhanced IDE configuration
today, I pulled the drive, and fixed four identical 300 giga Sata drives because I want to run a striped mirrored RAID.
but... when I look at the available options, the BIOS setup screens do not ever show a RAID option at ALL.
I could connect an IDE drive, and see wether that will then allow me to install a RAID, but I really want to boot from RAID.
I also have an azalia question, but this can wait... the burning question right now is this..
kind regards, Jaak

Hi
hey, Thanks... Sorry if I be late to reply.
looks like default forum option is no not have email notification ON...
gonna look for this, if available.
F6 and driver on floppy, when I go for it and launch the setup on blanco SATA drives for a stipe/mirror without any PATA drives present at all, will that work?
I could still try this, even after I moved the mobo to a smaller case so as to get rid of it.
what I saw is that in BIOS, it does not show any of the raid options.
Is that floppy gonna install something in preboot, or in MBR of first active (if no option can be taken in BIOS, how so?)
r, or in EMBR of first active?
long time ago I did do some raid in real SCSI, and them things had an active bootrom in scsi raid setup, what is what I do not see...
now, maybe, MAYBE, one can set this up as a disttributed volume in windows, but will it do stripe/MIRROR?
I am skeptical.
yet... what have I got to lose, eh?
If ya really think a striped mirrored SATA RAID can be done n my mobo, I am willing to get me another (BIG/GER) case with an azalia front connector... and try it out.

No RAID option in Thinkpad W520 BIOS

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