From: peter machule (machule_at_triumf.ca)
Date: Wed Dec 02 1998 - 03:43:21 EST
The Bios Ver 1.4X was designed for Win 95 . Some changes were made in the
Plug and play protocol among other things.
So yes, you want Bios ver 1.4x.
I have spare, one internal DC/DC power supply for a 360x.
$45 US ??...plus transpo
This should fix the battery problem .
The backup power is a bunch of Nicad Cells soldered together underneath the
floppy bay and usually under a piece of plastic.
One screw removes the plastic and lets you remove the battery.
IBM was no unreasonable on the price of this thing ...$7.50 ???
But first measure the voltage. I'm away from my bible at the moment but look for
the tpvol2.pdf wich is the HMMM (hardware maintenace manual )
It's best found on IBM FTP site .
ftp://ftp.pc.ibm.com/pub/pccbbs/mobiles/tpvol2.pdf
I believe it was 3 cells so that should be 3.6 volt (ish).
How do you know that your regular battery is good?
And how are you charging it if your TP360's DC/DC converter is brocken ?
In regards to you error messages you are doing something wrong (grin).
The standard IBM Bios upgrade creates a BOOTable floppy . It cares not about your
system software. Download it again ?
Good luck.
..peter..
-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Lyngvig <martini_at_acm.org>
To: THINKPAD_at_cs.utk.edu <THINKPAD_at_cs.utk.edu>
Date: Wednesday, December 02, 1998 7:26 AM
Subject: 360C BIOS update and (lack of) battery
>CPR for 360...
>
>I've got a dusty old 360C which I'd like revive from it's hideout in the
>bottom of a drawer. It has a problem with the main battery power and backup
>power, so I have to enter the bios date when booting, and the main battery
>cannot power it. This is normally not a problem, because I just run it on
>wall power.
>
>Wanting to install Windows 95 on it, I need to upgrade the BIOS to 1.43 (or
>at least 1.40). The docs say to make sure to have a fully charged battery
>and have the ThinkPad plugged into the wall...but I'm willing to risk my
>system by relying only on the wall power (we have very few (if any) power
>outages here). The solution to the power problems are anyway a new system
>board.
No they are not. See above
>
>When running the Flash BIOS upgrade 1.43 (menu: 2. Update system program),
>I get some different error messages. The first one is like this:
>
>Error
>The system power management is disabled. The process has been cancelled.
>Esc=Cancel
>
>Looked around on IBM's site. They mentioned something about ensuring that
>the power.exe is being loaded from the config.sys, so I added it (had just
>low-level formatted the hd so there is no old stuff lying around). I still
>get that error sometimes when running the update software, but trying with
>and without battery in, I sometimes get no errors (but no action in system
>update except it goes back to the menu), and now I get this one also:
>
>Error
>This process requires a charged battery to avoid an accidental power off
>during an update. Turn off the computer and install a charged battery in
>the computer.
>Esc=Cancel
>
>Ironically, my battery is fully charged and in good shape--it is just not
>seen by the computer. ;)
>
>So, my question is quite simple. How to I trick/fool/overcome this so I can
>update to the BIOS needed to run Windows 95? Any chance that BIOS 1.40-1.42
>is not asking for this? Where to find the older BIOS files? Or can I run
>Windows 95 on my BIOS 1.16?
>
>Any help i sappreciated.
>
>-Martin
>
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> Martin Lyngvig Singapore martini_at_acm.org
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