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

[mike5065]

If you right-click in TS white-space, is there a "Start dual-IDA" option? All that does is uncheck EIST with the highest multiplier set. dual-IDA won't oscillate when setup correctly. It would be fixed 200x9 on your L7500. EIST must be available to be checked/unchecked in TS. That can only occur if the EIST-lock bit hasn't been set by the BIOS which is the whole idea of a dual-IDA modded bios.

Sounds like you are running single-IDA which would have been available prior to flashing this bios. Can confirm single-IDA operation by running something like wprime32 with 2 threads active which would see both cores running at 200x8. In which case perhaps provide feedback to middleton about this condition?

TS "Options"... "Start Dual IDA" and "Profile 1" are both greyed out, and de-delected, when EIST is On or Off in BIOS. The TS EIST behaves like I described prior. I agree with your suggestion, and my best guess is I was running in single IDA. P95 had 2 workers, and CPU was 1.6. WPrime was difficult for me to interpret, so I didn't use it.

middleton, if you want me to test, PM me or something...happy to help.

[middleton]

If all the dual-IDA bios require a revision then have you considered replace the dual-IDA bios links here with TBA?

No need: I've already fixed the problem.

middleton, if you want me to test, PM me or something...happy to help.

You can test the fixed version.

To dual-IDA testers: all BIOS packages have been updated. I hope dual-IDA will work correctly this time.

[mike5065]

No need: I've already fixed the problem.

You can test the fixed version.

My test of this version shows it's fixed, and works as expected. The Option for Dual IDA can be enabled (I also had to enable Profile 1). My L7500 locks at multiplier 9 during P95 and WPrime, both cores testing, when I manually set the multiplier.

Thanks very much.

[miro_gt]

To dual-IDA testers: all BIOS packages have been updated. I hope dual-IDA will work correctly this time.

thank you for your hard work on our BIOSes

I'll test this BIOS soon on my T61 (going to some party right now )

[User Retired 2]

It's always useful not to turn off your brain when you use any guide (even perfect one). kizwan haven't described the code pattern which I met in ThinkPad BIOS.

Good info to then feedback to Kizwan so can revise his document here with the Lenovo EIST-locked pattern to look for. Might even be the same for the Montevina X/R/T/W Thinkpad series. Those SU9xxx/SL9xxx owner's would surely like the extra multiplier they'd get with a dual-IDA bios.

[swine]

Edit：got the bios file, mediafire is working now.

[miro_gt]

tested on my T61

http://forum.notebookreview.com/leno...ould-mine.html

the BIOS updated its first part only, then I restarted (as asked by the software) and my windows got stuck on the restart. Then it restarted itself again and ran fine under "start windows normally".

I expected the second part to flash as well, but it didn't. I'm not sure if that's for the embedded controller, but as far as I remember the first part has 21 blocks, and the second part after the restart has 2 blocks to flash.

either way, seems to work fine

[middleton]

So what we have at the moment:

X61 Tablet dual-IDA BIOS - 1 feedback (19 downloads).
T61 dual-IDA BIOS - 1 feedback (66 downloads).
All other ThinkPads - 0 feedbacks (48 downloads).

Usually people don't send messages on a forum when everything is OK. But it's not so in case of problems. Since we have no messages about issues, I've decided to mark all dual-IDA BIOS'es as tested.

nando4, I want to leave only one BIOS version for each ThinkPad. Is there any side effects from unlocked EIST bit? What if dual-IDA version will be the only available version for download (even for those who don't need dual-IDA)?

[User Retired 2]

nando4, I want to leave only one BIOS version for each ThinkPad. Is there any side effects from unlocked EIST bit? What if dual-IDA version will be the only available version for download (even for those who don't need dual-IDA)?

There are no side-effects. If the user isn't using Throttlestop to start dual-IDA then the system will run exactly like it did prior to using the dual-IDA bios.

You can go ahead and just have the single modded bios which is 'dual-IDA capable'.

[miro_gt]

I would suggest giving it some time to see if anybody finds some side effect before removing the links without Dual IDA.

Like a month maybe...