Portege R500 BIOS update 1.60-WIN

Hello
I was looking at the 1.60-WIN BIOS update available on the download pages since 25/03/08.
Anybody know what the update does?
The explanation on the download page just says: +"This Bios Update adds increased functionality to your system."+
Thanks in advance.

Yeah, 0,85V is locked by the CPU. It's Intel's mistake that the CPU runs so hot and doesn't accept halt commands. I tried maybe 5-6 available apps and no luck. Also, Win XP makes the R500 much snappier and faster, and even thought it consumes less resources than Vista the CPU gets to 62C and fan start whining. Then the temp drops to 55C and the fan stops. It takes3-5 mins and the temp rises again to 62C and this goes on and on. With an idle system and the lowest cooling method! Crazy!! I'm afraid BIOS update and the higher temp threshold would not help because the limit should be somewhere near the absolute max temp that the CPU can handle and that would make the whole laptop very very hot. 80-90C?
I wonder is it possible to force (hack) the CPU to accept low voltages like couple of years ago pencil tricks worked nicely.. or custom code for the halt command...

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