T61/X61 SATA II 1.5 Gb/s cap - willing to pay for a solution

[blackpita]

I am totally impressed with what middleton has achieved!

I plan to use the X61 bios as soon as the final release is out (going to perform the SXGA+ mod so I need that in my modded bios, too), as well as the T61 bios for the T60/T61 I am planning with a T9300 Penryn.

I had come to peace with the idea of pressing Esc on every boot, but these news are just excellent!

I imagine I will not have any issues with neither of the two, and also plan to donate for such great work!

Best regards,
Panagiotis

[Kamika007z]

Hi middleton,

Thank you so much for taking the time and modding this BIOS, allowing us to use SATA II speeds!!

Quick questions, is the ISO supplied within the rar file modified as well or just a direct ISO from Lenovo's site? I read through the readme and wasn't 100% clear on this.

Thank you again,
Kamika007z

[Nx2]

tremendous work middleton, thank you so much Take my donation as a little recoupment for your troubles

[s_a_s_c_h_a]

The T60 intel chipset doesn't support SATAII mode, it is hardware limitation not a firmware limitation.

what a pity

[middleton]

Hi middleton,

Thank you so much for taking the time and modding this BIOS, allowing us to use SATA II speeds!!

Quick questions, is the ISO supplied within the rar file modified as well or just a direct ISO from Lenovo's site? I read through the readme and wasn't 100% clear on this.

Thank you again,
Kamika007z

Yes, ISO CD-Image is also modified.

[Kamika007z]

Thank you!

I wonder if its possible to mod the T60 to allow more than 3GB of RAM>

I believe the chipset can do it (945), but was capped by Lenovo.

Can any else shed some additional light on this?

[suny]

Thank you!

I hope if you can mod the T61 to support T6600 ?

[Hearst]

Thank you!

I hope if you can mod the T61 to support T6600 ?

If you mean the T6600 Core 2 Duo processor then the BIOS mod has already been completed but is currently going under testing. This will go under the "Thermal Sensing Error" deactivation as the T6600 is a Penryn processor.

Hopefully it shouldn't be too long for the final BIOS release so you can use the T6600 for your T61.

[suny]

If you mean the T6600 Core 2 Duo processor then the BIOS mod has already been completed but is currently going under testing. This will go under the "Thermal Sensing Error" deactivation as the T6600 is a Penryn processor.

Hopefully it shouldn't be too long for the final BIOS release so you can use the T6600 for your T61.

Thanks you!
YES, it is the T6600 Core 2 Duo processor .
The T61 bios supports T8300 Core 2 Duo processor but it can't support T6600 or T4400 etc.

[zephir]

Thank you!

I wonder if its possible to mod the T60 to allow more than 3GB of RAM>

I believe the chipset can do it (945), but was capped by Lenovo.

Can any else shed some additional light on this?

Nope. Chipset 945 is limited to 3GB of RAM, and SATA-I. You can't do anything about it.