Re: [Thinkpad] bios upgrade without battery

James,

This was posted to this list over a year ago. I used it and it worked fine
for me, ymmv.

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>yes, i have a method which can upgrade the bios without a fully charged
>battery..
>first of all ,you need to make a bios-update floppy disk and another
>clean bootable disk with no config.sys and autoexec.bat
>then copy the following files from the bios-update disk to the bootable
>disk: phlash.exe and $0179000.FL1 $0179000.FL3.
>and rename the $0179000.fl1 to bios.rom ,$0179000.fl3 to platform.bin
>finally use the bootable disk to reboot. And turn to driver letter
>a:>,just type "phlash<enter>",this program will automatically search for
>the file platform.bin(the manufacturer specific initialization file) and
>use the default file bios.rom to update bios. everything will be done
>just as using the bios-update disk. And this method will not detect
>whether you use a AC adaptor/battery nor not.
>warning:
> take the risk with your own...this is NOT a safe way to update the
>bios which IBM recommended.though it really works

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Regards,

Vicky

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Anacortes, Washington  USA
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On 05/16/2003 "JD" <jjones7777777@hotmail.com> said:
>I have been searching high and low on how to flash my bios without a
>battery.....there are a few articles on how to do it, however they are
>all about HP laptops and the directions they give you are not anywhere
>similar to the files that come with the TP600 bios upgrade........any
>help or guidance is greatly appreciated.....
>Thank you 
>James Jones 
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