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

[cypherpunk]

Please forgive me for not reading this whole thread, but is there anyway to get SATA II speeds on my t60?

No, there is no way. T60's only have a SATA I capable hardware, whereas T61's have a SATA II capable hardware, which has been reduced to SATA I speeds via firmware. This is why Middleton's BIOS correction can make a difference on T61, whereas on T60 no such possibility exists, unfortunately.

[sonysg]

Hi Middleton or other forumer,

Could i verified whether your bios file for X61 Tablet support the following addon? Tend to apply this I know zender bios support this but not sure yours but his BIOS's doesn't support SATA II.

Broadcom BCM970015 mini PCI-E Crystal HD Decoder 1080i

Broadcom BCM970015 mini PCI-E Crystal HD Decoder 1080i | eBay

[eyeland]

thank you very much for your help! this firmware works with all T61? users have had problems with using this? the bios I can install it as a normal firmware lenovo right? thank's

Even flashing an official BIOS from Lenovo can brick your machine if you're very unlucky and something goes wrong, but if you follow the instructions provided in this thread, the modded bios should be as safe to install as the one you can download from Lenovo. Please skim through some of this thread as it will answer most of your questions

[middleton]

Could i verified whether your bios file for X61 Tablet support the following addon? Tend to apply this I know zender bios support this but not sure yours but his BIOS's doesn't support SATA II.

Broadcom BCM970015 mini PCI-E Crystal HD Decoder 1080i | eBay

You said Zender's BIOS supports Broadcom BCM970015 mini PCI-E adapter. If it's so, then my modified BIOS supports this adapter too because I used the same patching method as Zender did.

[sonysg]

You said Zender's BIOS supports Broadcom BCM970015 mini PCI-E adapter. If it's so, then my modified BIOS supports this adapter too because I used the same patching method as Zender did.

what a wonderful news!
thanks!

[awschnap]

I'm also getting the error 99 that was mentioned previously. I got the warning about BitLocker also. The bios did not flash. It is still at the old version (2.07). Any idea what went wrong? I was able to do the fn ctrl swap successfully.

[User Retired 2]

T61/R61 owners might want to see if the bios accepts newer T4xxx/T6xxx or even 1066Mhz FSB Penryns as discussed in: FSB downclock mod on the intel GL960 and GL40 --- useful info for PLL Modders . Could be a low cost upgrade from the 65nm Meroms with resultant lower temps and longer battery life.

[kamaleon]

Hi all

I must be a bit thick as I'm really struggling with getting the bios flash to work. I have a X61t and have downloaded the correct bios file, I'm running Win7 x64 so apparently can't flash it from the windows environment, can you anybody please explain which is the best method to get this to work from a usb key? I have no ultrabay cd drive. I have tried unetbootin, the HP utilities etc with no success. I have searched this thread to some extent with no joy either. TIA!

[ghoffman]

T61/R61 owners might want to see if the bios accepts newer T4xxx/T6xxx or even 1066Mhz FSB Penryns as discussed in: FSB downclock mod on the intel GL960 and GL40 --- useful info for PLL Modders . Could be a low cost upgrade from the 65nm Meroms with resultant lower temps and longer battery life.

nando -
do you know if the modded t61p bios will allow a quad-core processor?
can you be more specific as to which processors to try to obtain the cooler tempand longer battery life?
thanks

[Evestay]

So I really appreciate the bios and my ssd getting almost twice the speed, thank you middleton.

But I have a question about the bios. I assume changing the bios changed the things I see during my startup process and part of that is counting up my RAM every startup. It says "XXXX Extended RAM passed" or something similar and the X part just counts up to 3000 or so. Is there any way to skip that part?

I tried using ctrl+s to enter setup but there are really no options. Are there other function keys I can tap during bios load to change settings for quick startup or something?