Thinkpad 770X: How determine the BIOS version?

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Hi,

a few days ago I bought a used Thinkpad 770X at eBay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.d [...] 4124688538

Besides from the (probably) damadged battery and the missing floppy
drive this seems to be a nice device.

Now I learned that there was a bug in the TP 770X causing Linux to
not detect the amount of RAM correctly.

I got an update utility from the IBM pages and the readme file
starte like this:

  "  IBM ThinkPad 770X                               September 20, 2001
     System Program Service Diskette

     Version 1.10 (IIET42WW)  "


Now my question: How can I see if I should use this update and get
this BIOS version installed?
It might be that this laptop already has the new BIOS in there - can
I harm it by trying to run the update process in this case?

Another question: The IBM page wrote that I should have a full battery
to run the BIOS update program.  Unfortunately the battery seems to
be dead (at least that's what I suspect, because the seller wrote
"battery: existing - no guarantee", which for me sounds like "forget
about that rotten battery" ).

Can I do any harm to the laptop by running the BIOS update if the
battery is damadged of has only 10% capacity left or so...?

Or can I safely use the normal power cable instead?

Thanks for any answers! :-)

Karl-Heinz
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Archived from groups: comp.sys.laptops (More info?)

On Sonntag, 18. April 2004 17:42 JHEM wrote:

> Karl-Heinz Zimmer <khz@kde.org> wrote:
>>
>> Now my question: How can I see if I should use this update and get
>> this BIOS version installed?
>
> Press and hold down the F1 key while powering up the system.
(...)
>> It might be that this laptop already has the new BIOS in there - can
>> I harm it by trying to run the update process in this case?
>
> No, you won't hurt it.
(...)


Thanks a lot for the information, I printed it out and will follow it
when the laptop arrived here in a few days... will keep you informed
if all went right then. :-)

Karl-Heinz
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Karl-Heinz <mailto:khz@indeview.org> <mailto:khz@kde.org>
Zimmer I n d e V i e w K D E
Föhren Presentations Beyond Limitations Conquer your Desktop
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