T61 Bios HELP

I need some help with my bios.
Questions:
-How can I flash the bios? Reflash?
-Can I roll back the bios to a previous version?
-Whats the latest bios ver. for this laptop?
So i have sloved all the above problems now i have a question/request. can someone backup their working t61 bios with winplash and give me the .rom from that so I can try to flash my bios to a known working one.

what is the model number of your T61? XXXX-XXX
what version of the bios are you running.
Regards,
Jin Li
May this year, be the year of 'DO'!
I am a volunteer, and not a paid staff of Lenovo or Microsoft

Similar Messages

T61 BIOS Update

I have a 101 question on T61 BIOS Update:
My current version of BIOS is 2.25 (2008-11-14). In Lenovo site there are 3 or 4 updates available. Will I be able to jump to the latest available BIOS update or do I have to install all the BIOS updates in order?
Is it possible to backup BIOS before update, just in case if something goes wrong to restore BIOS?
Thank you!

You can install the latest, no need to do multiple. The process will make a backup of your old bios, but if the flash fails your computer won't be usable and there would be no simple way to recover. The standard procedure is to replace the system board and unless it's a very rare board, that would be the best option.
In my opinion it's not a good idea to update your bios unless you have something significant to gain, and do so at your own risk if the computer is out of warranty.
ThinkPad W-510 i7-820QM(1.73-3.06GHz) Quad Core... ThinkPad T500, T9900, 8gb SSD...FrankNpad T-60p/61p (X9000 2.8ghz) 8gb SSD ips FlexView...ThinkPad T-61p (T9300 2.5ghz) 8gb ram...Thinkpad X-61 Tablet 4gb ram...ThinkPad A-31 (1.9ghz P4 1.5gb ram)

T61 bios not support Phoenix BootBlock recover mode?

T61 bios not support Phoenix BootBlock recover mode? how to use phoenix crisdisk to recover from bad flash bios?
ACER,HP OEM PHOENIX BIOS support.

T61 bios not support Phoenix BootBlock recover mode? how to use phoenix crisdisk to recover from bad flash bios?
ACER,HP OEM PHOENIX BIOS support.

Bios help!!!

So I got a new laptop. A505-S6005... And I had it for three days. Bulletin board say I had THREE NEW MESSAGES!!! I look and see that there is an update for my bios. Insydeh20 by the way. I would believe that I was at 1.1 or 1.0 and now at a 1.2 I have worked with software for like 5 years. No programming but general user stuff. But never have I came across a bios up date. So I figured newer is better... My mistake!!! Now after some research online I realized that was a NO NO!!! Unless it's malfunctioning. If it aint broke don't fix it... So I did the idiot move and upgraded it. Now my media buttons and my touchpad on/off button doesn't work. Don't get me wrong... I can navigate in bios, just never came across an update for it. I never new that it was in tune with the motherboard. I always thought it was like DOS. (I don't understand DOS, it's freaking Greek to me) What I would like is to know how to downgrade to the original bios version since it didn't needed to be upgraded to begin with. I've look and have found nothing but spam. Please help...

is it just those buttons not working and everything else is fine? if that is the case try to reinstall the TVAP from the downloads tab at the top of this screen.
-civicman4-
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Post all info about your laptop and version of windows. We are working on it but still do not have the powers to read your mind.

Bluetooth not working - T61 - PLEASE HELP :(

I read a few of other threads about bluetooth not working on T61.
What I tried:
Enabling the bluetooth adapter from BIOS (was already enabled)
No light showing up on the front of the laptop (turns on very briefly when I turn the laptop on)
Tried fn+f5 and it wont turn on (wi fi is).
I installed hotkey driver, rebooted a few times, still nothing.
When installing bluetooth driver, it says the device couldn't be found.
I used bluetooth before, then I reinstalled windows 7 and it stopped working.
Any ideas?

I got the same problem and it seems like Lenovo just don't care about it. I've already installed all the updates from Lenovo and Windows and newest Bluetooth drivers from Broadcom....still nothing.

M305 bios help

hello my name is jason, and my m305 satellite simply didnt turn back on the other day- lights come on, no bios. i do not know what to do. i see all sorts of info on the topic here, but dont see anything m305 specific. i may be overlooking it-in which case direction would be greatly appreciated. i consider myself slightly above a novice user and believe i can handle this, if i get some specific instruction. thanks for all your time and help!

How is your name, Jason, relevant?
And you probably don't need an answer spcific to m305.
Anyway, nothing, huh? Nothing on the screen? Plug it in and try to start. If you get absolutely nothing on the screen then, this may be serious.
`~- Nehmo

N500 BIOS help/walkthru needed

Hi all
When I switch on my laptop, I am presented with a very pale blue/pink screen with lots of faded vertical greyish lines.
After a moment the screen then turns black, with the exception of the left hand inch or so which has about 6 or 8 red/green vertical lines.
Obviously something's not right! My question is - what? The screen itself? The board? Any ideas would be welcome.
Also, during the power on it only seems to acces the HDD momentarily before stopping, it doesn't seem to be loading the OS. Would this point to a mobo failure instead of a screen failure?
Thanks in advance,
Chris
Also - there are no system beeps when I switch on.
And - the fn keys work to change the brightness on the display.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

@ chris5,
I merged your posts because they are basically dealing with the same problem - one is a continuation of the other.
Duck3 wrote:
Never mind, you get in but are "blind" correct?
I think it would help chris5 if someone, with the same BIOS, could check and then post the key strokes to enable the boot display to be VGA.
For example, (and this will not be correct), start system > after 4 secs press F1 to enter BIOS > default is the config menu > press enter > press down 3 times to enter Display menu > default is xyz > press down 1 time > press enter etc. etc.
Basically all the keystrokes required to set the VGA as the default boot display. I don't have an 3000 N100 or N500 at hand, otherwise I'd post the steps required.
Hope you all understand the idea and hope it helps
Andy ______________________________________
Please remember to come back and mark the post that you feel solved your question as the solution, it earns the member + points
Did you find a post helpfull? You can thank the member by clicking on the star to the left awarding them Kudos Please add your type, model number and OS to your signature, it helps to help you. Forum Search Option T430 2347-G7U W8 x64, Yoga 10 HD+, Tablet 1838-2BG, T61p 6460-67G W7 x64, T43p 2668-G2G XP, T23 2647-9LG XP, plus a few more. FYI Unsolicited Personal Messages will be ignored.
Deutsche Community Comunidad en Español English Community Русскоязычное Сообщество
PepperonI blog

MS-6330 S/N 1700708281 red mother board and BIOS help.

I am trying to repair my cousins machine. I am computer savy but dont want to mess up either. She has a red mother board with the above listed number on the board. From the System Information screen (I installed Win XP Pro). The problem is that sometimes the CD drives can be read and mostly not at all. The floppy drive is the same way. As far as I know the BIOS has never been updated. Would this solve the problem of reading the drives other than the HD?
Any help in this line well help. Thank you.

Here it goes:
Belarc Advisor Current Profile
Microsoft Security Updates: Up-to-date
Computer Profile Summary
Computer Name: N-48b435a158ff4 (in WORKGROUP)
Profile Date: Thursday, September 22, 2005 4:44:29 PM
Advisor Version: 7.0t
Windows Logon: cousins name
Operating System System Model
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (build 2600) MICRO-STAR
INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD MS-6330
Enclosure Type: Desktop
Processor a Main Circuit Board b 1.40 gigahertz AMD Athlon Board: MICRO-STAR INTERNATIONAL CO., LTD MS-6330
Bus Clock: 133 megahertz
BIOS: Award Software International, Inc. 6.00 PG 06/15/2001
Drives Memory Modules c,d
40.02 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
36.90 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space
32X MAX ATAPI CD-ROM
LITE-ON LTR-16101B [CD-ROM drive]
3.5" format removeable media [Floppy drive]
MAXTOR 6L040J2 [Hard drive] (40.03 GB) -- drive 0, s/n 362129923891,
rev A93.0500, SMART Status: Healthy 576 Megabytes Installed Memory
Local Drive Volumes
c: (NTFS on drive 0)40.02 GB36.90 GB free
Network Drives: None detected
Controllers Display
Standard floppy disk controller
Primary IDE Channel [Controller]
Secondary IDE Channel [Controller]
VIA Bus Master IDE Controller Velocity 128 [Display adapter]
Default Monitor
Bus Adapters Multimedia
VIA Rev 5 or later USB Universal Host Controller (2x) Game port for
Yamaha DS1
VIA AC'97 Audio Controller (WDM)
YAMAHA Legacy DS1 WDM Driver
YAMAHA Native DS1 WDM Driver
Communications Other Devices
Generic 56K HCF Data Fax Modem
Linksys NC100 Fast Ethernet Adapter
primary Auto IP Address: x.x.x.x / xx
Gateway: x.x.x.x
Dhcp Server: x.x.x.x
Physical Address: x:x:x:x:x:x
Networking Dns Servers: x.x.x.x
x.x.x.x
x.x.x.x
Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard
PS/2 Compatible Mouse
USB Root Hub (2x)
Virus Protection: No details available
Missing Microsoft Security Hotfixes: All required security hotfixes (using the 09/13/2005 Microsoft
Security Bulletin Summary) have been installed.
Installed Microsoft Hotfixes: Internet Explorer SP2 (SP2) Windows XP SP3
* Click to see where software is installed.
a. Megahertz measurement may be inaccurate if other programs were busy during last analysis.
b. Data may be transferred on the bus at one, two, or four times the Bus Clock rate.
c. Memory slot contents may not add up to Installed Memory if some memory is not recognized by Windows.
d. Memory slot contents is reported by the motherboard BIOS. Contact system vendor if slot contents are wrong.
e. This may be the manufacturer's factory installed product key rather than yours.
On label of power supply:
Voltage Current
+ 3.3v 14.0A 125W
+ 5v 20A MAX
+ 12v 6.0A PK10A
- 5v 0.5A 9.6W
- 12v 0.5A MAX
+ 5VSB 0.72A
Hope this NOW helps.
Thanks,
John

K9A2 Platinum - ATI4890 - Ocasionaly no Signal on startup, no post bios HELP plz

Hi. I'm having some weird issues, it has only happened tree times in 2 months, no signal is displayed, monitor remains in standby mode. Then I hard reset it, and then every thing works fine. I have a MSI K9A2 Platinum motherboard with an AMD Phenom II 940 BE, all powered by a CoolerMaster Silent Pro 600w PSU. I haven't updated my motherboard bios yet, nor the vga bios.
Driver is Catalyst 9.5 for Vista x64, it shows my 4890 like "HD 4800 Series". The card is conected via DVI to a DELL s2409W 24'' lcd.
When it happens it does not show any video signal in my monitor, not even bios info, the monitor remains in STANDBY mode, i don't think drivers can cause that.
The card power supply is connected through two PCI-E 6+2 Pins conectors directly to the PSU.
I haven't updated my motherboard bios, this i could do, i know there are new updates for my motherboard. I have no floppy though, is there any way to update the bios via flash or making a booting CD?
Also, i have 2x OCZ 2gb memory stick running at 1066 in slots 3 and 4, this could be a issue??
Its a weid issue really, i can use the system normaly without problems right now, but this is still making me wonder whats was wrong those 3 times since i couldnt see any errors, cause there was no video.
I hope you can help out here, thank you.

Just came from work, and happened again, no signal, I couldnt hear the windows logon sound, so the bios is not posting.
I'd updated my signature with my system specs.
Also i cheked out my bios version with CPU-Z: V1.5
Also heres my PSU specs
It should be working fine with the card, it has 40A on the +12v line.
I'm using the 3 and 4 memory slot from the board in dual channel, I'm gonna change it to the 1 and 2, to see what happens...
Lastly, would you guys recomend me to upgrade the bios?

NEED BIOS HELP

First off... I love MSI, but find their lack of tech help questionable; hopefully some tech guys out there are willing to help me out with my problems!!
This is an all new system, that I have installed 4 times trying to get it to become stable. It was stalling on windows start up. I finally noticed it stalled after adding the cd that cam with the mobo. I then put off installing the cd, and things were rock solid. I then began fixing the "!" in my device manager by selecting the drivers to install from the cd. All was good... except for ONE thing! I had no sound. I checked and rechecked everything with no success! Device manager had NO "!" and said my sound was ok. I started auto updates and hoped drivers and window updates would fix the problem, with no luck.
Not knowing what else it could be I decided to try and update my bios. I was running 3.30, wanted to go to 3.40. Anyways... I am NOT very knowledgeable with bios flashing and decided to let the updater do it for me. It asked to do it either from a disk or form windows. I figured if I could do it from windows that would be great!! So I continued. It asked me if I wanted to save to a disk just in case windows does not work. I had no blank disk so I said no. (BIG MISTAKE) The windows started to flash the bio and completed, then began to restart.
Upon restart the bios version stopped and requested a disk. If no disk was found to press F2. I do not know the exact description, but I figure its asking for the disk I should have made. With no disk I hit F2. Windows will start up, but I have NO MOUSE control!! There are no errors or window problems or anything, except no mouse!
My questions....
1) How do I get my mouse back? (its a standard plug n play mouse no usb, or anything)
2) did my bios flash screw something up?
3) whats wrong with my sound... errr...
Everything could be fine I guess. I can not access some stuff because im only using my keyboard. Also if I select the boot no errors clause, the bios will not prompt me for the disk and loads windows. However, the bios is empty.. but for a few options.
PLEASE O PLEASE HELP THIS ID10T OUT!!
It would be nice just to call MSI TECH support... if they actually had one!

MSI Technical Support Contact Information:
Tel:    626 581 3001
Fax:    626 581 7721
Operation Hours:    Monday-Thursday 7:30AM - 5:30PM (PST)
   Friday 8:30AM - 4:00PM (PST)
I assume this is a neo 4 platinum sli board?
If so the bios updates for 3.3 and 3.4 absolutely stink. Try 3.53 beta, I flashed mine with it and it works great now.
As far as the sound goes, it may be due to the power supply. I see all over that if the PSU does not have a -5 volt rail it will cause issues with the onboard sound. If you are not sure if yours does, check with the manufacturer of it. Also I have hear but not confirmed that MSI has fixed the sound/psu problem.
I got the power supply without realizing this, but have had no issues, the site I got my supply from says nothing about this -5 volt rail, (using OCZ Modstream 450)
I think it listed it on the box for it, but I cannot re-check that now, in either case I have had no issues with sound using either that PSU or my old Enermax Whisper 365.
you can check https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=80933.0 for a link to the bios 3.53 (thats where I got it from) I am not saying it will fix the sound issue, but I had the shutdown/powerdown issues with both 3.3 and 3.4 as other people had mentioned in that thread, and 3.53 fixed all of my issues, also stopped it from blue screening.
Flashing the bios is potentially bad if you do it wrong, your pc will not boot. It is not overly hard, but make sure you read all instructions on it or have someone with experience help you. It is a different process that the bios update done in windows. Again if you are not sure, get someone to help or call MSI and have them tell you exactly how to do it.

OMG Cannot download latest BIOS HELP

Help! As usually I went to check if new BIOS is avail because I've been yearning one for quite long now, and looking at the beta bios thread quite a lot of stufff fixed and added since BIOS v2.10 so it's about time for v2.11.
MB in question is MSI Z77A-G43.
All the download locations are down, getting error404... How can this be possible??
http://msi.com/service/download/bios-21813.html
None of the DL locations work..?? What's the point with the mirrors?
Where can I download this official v2.11 bios?

Flashing today isn't risky, as risky as it was 10 years ago. If one knows what one doing, then there is no risk.
I yearned for the update because there was a lot fixes and changes added after v.2.10.
And I'm looking to do some RAM OC, so I need the latest bios.
Plus, v.2.11 has latest ME - that is not in v.2.10.
Thanks Yogi, those links did indeed work now (I wonder did they just forgot to upload the BIOS'es or what, I'v read other board BIOS'es weren't uploaded either, thus offered in ?div=BIOS ???)

Gf615m-p33 v1.2 flashed wrong bios help

Hi sorry didnt mean to hijack anything anyhow this is my problem I have a gf615m-p33 v1.2 motherboard that I accidentlly flashed with a 1.1 bios now all I can do is hold ctrl and home and use my usb stick to reflash. It wont reflash unless I rename the bios the wrong bios that I wrongly flashed then it goes to the boot screen and says bios is damaged and says its going to enter setup counts down then black screen again any help would be appreciated thanx peace

Quote from: spinalgr1998 on 28-March-15, 17:17:41
mainboard S/N is MS-7597 VER 1.1
That's not the S/N. You can find the S/N on a white sticker on the box or on the back of the board:
Example:
(board)
(box)
Quote from: spinalgr1998 on 28-March-15, 17:17:41
I can't find BIOS ID.
Follow Svet's advice:
Quote from: Svet on 24-March-15, 22:31:04
list full BIOS ID look for it in BIOS Setup [or during bios post screen press "pause" key]

T61 BIOS update failed

I was updating the BIOS and it failed, now I cannot start the computer anymore and the warrenty is out.
Where can I buy a new MOBO?

I can help you, I'll need to know your exact model. I'll also add that they can be fixed, but it's a lot more work then replacing the board.
ThinkPad W-510 i7-820QM(1.73-3.06GHz) Quad Core... ThinkPad T500, T9900, 8gb SSD...FrankNpad T-60p/61p (X9000 2.8ghz) 8gb SSD ips FlexView...ThinkPad T-61p (T9300 2.5ghz) 8gb ram...Thinkpad X-61 Tablet 4gb ram...ThinkPad A-31 (1.9ghz P4 1.5gb ram)

T61 BIOS update - how serious is the "brick" risk?

Reading through various posts here, it seems that it is either very easy to update the BIOS, or very easy to "brick" your system
Are there any known good methods? Are there any tools that can back up the BIOS and if ncessary restore the BIOS using that backup?
Are there any "known bad" methods that are almost certain to brick the system?

You can do a bios update from your harddrive, you just cannot do it when booted into your 64bit windows version.
There are other options. You can start the compuuter with a Windows PE (pre-installation envoromennt) Live CD, then run the 32bit program from your harddrive. When you run it from an optical drive you introduce the risk of disc read error, as well as the fact that optical discs are much slower then a HDD.
I'm preparing to flash a 64bit version at the moment and I'll describe how I'm doing it. Part of this process is to install a backup operating system onto the computer,setup as dual boot. This way if I have any problems like data loss, I can start the computer from a different partition and run disc recovery programs on the main system drive (you sould never try to recover data on the same drive you booted from, so this is something I do with every computer I setup).
1. Search and download a freeware program ccalled "Parted Magic". It's a partition manager based on a Linux LiveCD and runs without installing anything on your harddrive (runs fully in ram memory). I'm going to skip over the "how to use parted magic because quite frankly, it's so simple that anyone unable to figure it out shouldn't be flashing bios or installing operating systems.
2. Resize your primary partition to give enough room to install a second operating system. I'm using a custom build of WinXP that only requires about 300mb, but I like to make the second partition large and use it for storage, that way any data loss on partition 2 can be repaired from your main operating system, and if I ever have to reformat my system drive, I can move any data I need to save to my second partition.
I generally give Win Seven or Vista a min of 20GB, but you can use a smaller partition if you're not going to install a lot of programs. This laptop has an 80GB harddrive and I'm making two 40GB primary partitions.
*note, if you want to mix WinXP and Windows Vista/Seven, you'll need to either install XP first, or repair the Vista/Seven boot manager that XP will overwrite. It's an easy fix but to keep this simple I'll avoid any unnecessary instructionns.
After you finish making your second partition formated with NTFS, simply boot your Windows install disc and select the second partition and install.
You'll now have a second windows version.
Assuming you selected a 32bit version, you can use it to run anything that won't run under win x64.
If you prefer to boot from a WinPE disc, you can download the software you need to make it direct from microsoft. Here is a wikipedia article that will tell you more about this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Preinstallation_Environment
You can also do a google search and you'll find many guides on making them. I would recommend you boot a winPE disc and do some exploring of your computer so you get the feel of it, and more important, so you can be sure it's running stabe on your system. You might even be able to run some of those old dos games that windows objects to running, so have some fun and get the feel of it.
If you can run even small basic programs from winpe, then you can be pretty sure it's stable enough to flash a bios. The problem with the bios boot disc is you have no oportunity to do anything, it boots and flashes... it won't decide "wait a minute, why is my screen flicering and power LEDs flashing, maybe I better figure this out first", it just proceeds forth like a good soilder, obeying orders even if they are fatal.
I hope this information is helpful, I believe it all to be accurate, but please remember that I'm not recommending you flash your bios, you have to make that decision.
ThinkPad W-510 i7-820QM(1.73-3.06GHz) Quad Core... ThinkPad T500, T9900, 8gb SSD...FrankNpad T-60p/61p (X9000 2.8ghz) 8gb SSD ips FlexView...ThinkPad T-61p (T9300 2.5ghz) 8gb ram...Thinkpad X-61 Tablet 4gb ram...ThinkPad A-31 (1.9ghz P4 1.5gb ram)

T61 Bios Password

i forget the bios password in T61and i can't clean it. i try to remove the two battery (normal battery and the backup battery yellow battery) and i disconnect the electricity for long time (over 15 min) but stil have the same message. and over this the message run before start windows so i can't do any thing now.
i need to default password or any help option to open.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Welcome to the forum,
I'm sorry but such discussion on bypassing security measures is not allowed on this forum.
Thank you for your understanding
John B @ forum.notebookreview.com

T61 Bios HELP

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for