I would be sure not to send it the hard drive. The better way to update a
BIOS is right thru Windoze, which of course you did not have. But it is
possible you burned a bad image, so instead of getting into a controversy,
just hold onto the hard drive with the non-original OS on it.
----- Original Message -----
From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 12:53 AM
Subject: [Thinkpad] So, have you bricked a thinkpad with a bios update?
I did, last night. I have a W500 running OpenBSD which is getting
better ACPI support. That doesn't work yet, but its close. Thinking
about things, it dawned on me to see how old my bios was, and its
pretty ancient.
I got the iso image and roasted it, and booted it following the
usual directions. It never booted after that, and a call to ez-serve
got me into the queue for a box to send it off to the hospital.
This is the first time I've managed to brick a thinkpad. What will
happen when it gets to the repair depot? Do they have a test jig
that will fix this, or is the system board trashed?
All in all, very distrurbing. Does this happen often?
--STeve Andre'
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