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

Hello.

I have a big problem. I just started the flash tool 30 minutes before. But now since 20 minutes it´s standing still at "Flash New BIOS Verifying block 2 of 2" (see attachment) and nothing happens. I don´t can use the mouse and everything is freezed

I just started the "BIOS/32bit/WINUPTP.exe" and followed the instructions.

What should I do now?

Should I put the middleton bios on an usb stick an start the t61 new?

EDIT: DONE, the flash just interrupted and after reseting the T61 started normally

 

What model and OS you use? Personally I dislike flashing under Windows because it can run background services which can disrupt the flashing process (hence why I do it by CD-ROM via the BIOS, plus I felt the pain of a bad Windows BIOS flash on my ASUS P5B Deluxe ). It is recommend that you turn off things like Anti-Virus, Firewalls, Internet Connectivity etc. temporarily during the flash process under Windows.

Based on your screenshot if it's still doing the flashing then I recommend leaving it for a bit before doing anything. Sometimes it does look like it's frozen where in fact it hasn't. Leave it for a bit then report back because if you switch it off now you probably do more bad for the laptop then good.

EDIT: OK based on the latest update from becks76 it all seems good. But my advice still stands, if it looks frozen then don't be tempted to turn it off!

 

Everything is okay, becks76 T61 lives (he wrote it in the german ThinkPad-Forum). He had a lot of external hardware connected via USB-Hub, had the book on external monitor,...

For everybody: its more save to burn the ISO and flash it under DOS. Also deconnect all peripheral hardware.

 

Tried the iso on my T61p 6459-CTO running Windows 7 64 and everything went smoothly. It successfully changed the SATA mode to Generation 2. I'm currently running a Western Digital Scorpio Black WD3200BEKT 320GB 7200 SATA 3.0Gb/s, however there wasn't any speed increase just running that (in fact the tests I ran gave a decrease, though minimal).

I ordered a SSD this weekend (Crucial RealSSD C300 CTFDDAC256MAG-1G1 2.5" 256GB SATA III MLC SSD) and then happened upon this post - glad I went looking and I hope things are quite speedy with my new SSD. I also picked up two 4GB sticks to hopefully push my T61p to 8GB ... I'll report back after I get both of those installed!

Thanks again for this! Donation forthcoming...

Lenovo Thinkpad T61p 15.6" - Intel Core 2 Duo T9300@2.5GHz, 4GB RAM, WD 320GB 7200 HDD, NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M, Windows 7 Professional 64-bit.

 

Hmm ok. Option 1 sounds safer, but does it work without removing the sxga+ display? Does the usual (xga) bios allow booting (with an external screen) even when the primary display is unknown (sxga+) so that the second flash can be done?

(sorry for the paranoid question, but i really don't want to undo the mod, even if it's temporary. It was kinda hard to fit it all together like it is now )

 

You'd better email me (see my address on page 18). I'll patch winuptp.exe for you.

 

Is there any point in using this bios patch if you don't have a SSD? Will I see a speed increase on a HDD?

 

I saw no increase with just a HDD.

 

what type of HD do you have? I've got http://www.hitachigst.com/tech/techlib.nsf/techdocs/03E516A3C41738C78625743B005AD957/$file/TS7K320_DS.pdf which says 300 gb/s so I'm tempted to do this. Also mine came from the factory with a penryn chip t9300 and I never get thermal error or have any SLIC issues. I'm wondering if my mobo is slightly different.

 

I didn't expect a speed increase on my HDD but after doing benchmarks it seems that the modded BIOS had increased sequential read/write of my HDD by approx 7-10mb/s. I was getting around mid 80s for read, 70s for write before, though I still plan to upgrade my system to SSD anyway!

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CrystalDiskMark 3.0 x64 (C) 2007-2010 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : Crystal Dew World
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* MB/s = 1,000,000 byte/s [SATA/300 = 300,000,000 byte/s]

Sequential Read : 93.265 MB/s
Sequential Write : 90.457 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 32.108 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 38.668 MB/s
Random Read 4KB (QD=1) : 0.402 MB/s [ 98.1 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=1) : 0.673 MB/s [ 164.4 IOPS]
Random Read 4KB (QD=32) : 0.764 MB/s [ 186.6 IOPS]
Random Write 4KB (QD=32) : 0.635 MB/s [ 155.1 IOPS]

Test : 1000 MB [C: 39.8% (46.4/116.4 GB)] (x5)
Date : 2010/08/01 21:18:37
OS : Windows 7 [6.1 Build 7600] (x64)


Maybe others can post their HDD benchmarks and verify? My HDD is a Seagate Momentus 250GB 7200.4 16MB Cache ST9250410AS (SATA II/300 Compliant) HDD drive for reference.