Re: [Thinkpad] Thinkpad 570 Flash over LAN

If it boots to DOS, I suspect, in order:
Bad hard drive
Bad memory
Bad CPU
All of which are easily replaced, one at a time to find the problem
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Reid" <RMReid@duke-energy.com>
To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Monday, May 26, 2003 2:02 PM
Subject: [Thinkpad] Thinkpad 570 Flash over LAN

> I have a Thinkpad 570 that stopped booting correctly last week. When it
> boots, it just goes to a flashing cursor and stops. I have reformatted the
> drive and it will boot with DOS fine. As soon as Windows 98, 2000, or XP
is
> installed, it goes back to booting to a flashing cursor.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> I have tried everything I can think of, but nothing works. The only thing
I
> have not tried is flashing to the newest BIOS, but I have a problem there
> as well. I do not have a floppy drive for the laptop and the #$%@^$# IBM
> flash software will only work if booted from the BIOS update disk. The 570
> has the option for "flash over LAN" in the BIOS. Does anyone know how this
> is done? I cannot find any info on it (or even mention of it) in the IBM
> documentation.
>
>
>
> Mark Reid
>
>
>
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Received on Thu May 29 13:58:56 2003