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

It should work flashing using the CD-ROM method as I did this myself and it works fine. I use a T61 with Windows 7 64-bit.

- First download the BIOS from middleton.

- Get a blank CD-R and open your CD burning software of choice. If you don't have one use ImgBurn which is free to use. Just point the software to the CD Image file (so if you want the BIOS with the FN+CTRL switch open "7luj26uc" as the source).

- Let it burn the image file to the blank CD, it shouldn't take too long.

- Once done, leave the CD-R inside. Save anything you have opened and restart the system.

- When the Thinkpad logo appears, keep pressing F12 for the boot options.

- Select the DVD/CD-ROM drive of your system and press Enter.

- It will open the Thinkpad BIOS flasher using FreeDOS. Select the 2nd option, make sure the Thinkpad you have is connected to a power outlet and have a battery pack installed. Then proceed to flash and wait. DON'T SWITCH OFF OR PRESS ANYTHING DURING THIS PROCESS.

- It will tell you once it's done, take out the CD-R and reboot.

- You can check if the BIOS is flashed successfully by pressing F1 when the Thinkpad logo appears and check the version which should record as “2.27-1.08”.

 

midton,
how to download your file? how to pay for u? how to pm u?
I'm a foolish computer user, sorry.. thx for your help

 

You should read the whole thread.

But okay, see here:KLICK!

PMs are available when you wrote more than 10 posts.

 

Look, you must be familiar with BIOS flashing if you are reading this thread. I suppose this topic is for advanced users who usually know what they're doing flashing my patch. If you have no BIOS flashing experience, then listen to my advice: Don't try to flash the patch. Otherwise you can easily harm your laptop.

But if you still want to continue, then read two posts above from Hearst555 and XStoneX.
I have no time to teach you, sorry.

 

I am using X60........can i upgrade with it ??


THX

 

No.

Greetz,

XStoneX

 

I am willing to try the X61T patch in my platform if you need a tester. Since I am a new comer from Hong Kong, I can't PM to you, can you email the rom to my email address : jonathan.him@gmail.com ?Many thanks!!

Regards,
Jonathan

 

JonathanYiu

Done.

 

Add me to the list of your X61t Beta testers

x61test2010.20.electronicmail [at] spamgourmet-dot-com (you figure it out)

If needed I can supply a fully working Bios for X61t with Slic + No-Whitelist (fully working on Win7).

Furthermore I'd like to know how you patched SATAII as I'm eager to learn new patch modes. Could you share your knowledge or support a tool for patching SATAII (other than PhoenixBiosEditor) ?

THX.

X61t with SATAII= Dream come true !

 

One tester is enough. I want to be sure that in case of troubles only one machine will suffer.
There is no new special method for SATA II patching. For example whitelist is usually patched by the same way. You simply change code in unpacked BIOS then pack it back. In case of SATA we have to replace only two bytes from 0x10 to 0x20.
And I just can't understand why this trivial patch wasn't created much earlier.