Thinkpad W701 - Deleted BIOS, mysterious USB/Esata problems before update

Hi,
Yesterday I was supposed tto try out my new esata external disk, I had used it before with my EX495 homeserver, without any problems.
But when I conncted it to teh W701 it seemed like the connection failed and the drive fell to sleep when I tried to write to it. When I used USB it worked perfectly, and with the server esata worked without a hitch.
After trying that some time, I decided to try the lacie updater, and then a reboot. After that all of the usb ports failed.
I had allready looked at the Lenovo updateprogram, and found some updates, so I controlled the computer with the trackpad, and updated, but when the computer rebooted suddenly, and screen showed a underscore blinking and that was it. After that the computer screen went black and won't turn on anymore.
I have it it for 4-5 weeks now, and after 1 week the MB failed when setting in new ram, and was switched, now it has failed again - is there anything I could to, or does this one have to go in on service again?
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Just as a verification of this issue, I got the same problem when I updated my BIOS (letting ThinkVantage do it's thing). I have a ThinkPad W701 (got it 4 weeks ago), just called support and they verified that I had to send it in for a new MB. Would have thought there was some QC when releasing these updates, but, I guess not....
-Seth

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P.S.: My warranty ended.
P.S.2: I put USB Stick in USB2.0 port and not in USB3.0 ports That is a good plan
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Download the current BIOS Rompaq on another Windows PC. Double click it to open it. Choose the" create a recovery USB flash drive to use on devices with corrupted BIOS." option
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=ob-134117-1&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en...
Plug a 2GB or larger capacity flash drive into an available port
Once the recovery usb flash drive has been created, plug it into your pavilion 15 notebook and press the power button to boot to it and write a fresh bios rom file into the CMOS ROM to replace the corrupted one currently there.
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I am aware of other users with different Thinkpads who seem to have the same problem, so this may be more widespread an issue than just on the S540.
It is also not just an issue with the battery running down when fully shut down but will likely also be a problem for a machine in suspend mode since the network interface may be consuming a watt or so of power when in suspend, which will again run the battery down at an unacceptable rate.
I cannot imagine any use case where it would be necessary to have WOL enabled on a laptop that is mostly going to be used mobile - so having the default setting to AC only enabled, and having a BIOS bug enabling it when it is explicitely disabled is a serious problem.

Anyone running windows in the same laptop can check the same issue of battery drain due to WOl being enabled by default - in the Device Manager under the network card, opening the settings menu for the ethernet wired card the default for Wake-on-LAN on my computer was set to enabled. This can be changed to disabled, and you may need to also disable the setting for Wake on Magic Packet. Also in the Power Management tab it is possible to uncheck the settings for "Allow this device to wake the computer" and "Only allow a magic packet to wake the computer"
In my laptop these were all set to enabled by default.

VMWare ESXi 4.0 on Lenovo Thinkpad W701???

Hello everybody,
Do anyone knows if we can run VMware ESXI 4.0 on the new Lenovo Thinkpad W701, we shall upgrade this machine to 12GBs of RAM and a second HDD (SSD). I've read the most common problems occur with the chipset controller (ICH10) and the NIC.
Does anybody have experience with this?
Thanks
Philippe

Sorry to bring up an old thread - but I Was wondering the same thing. I think this would be an excellent tool for swing migraitons and shrinking ESX disks, etc., especially if ESXi will utilize the onboard RAID1 disks.

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