Updating The Thinkpad System Bios For Windows 2000; How To Update The System Bios - Lenovo ThinkPad 380E Setup Manual

Updating the ThinkPad system BIOS for Windows 2000

Before you install or upgrade your system to Windows 2000, you
(basic input/output system) BIOS on your ThinkPad
all the features offered by Windows 2000, such as ACPI support, it is strongly recommended
that you update your ThinkPad's system BIOS. If you do not update the system BIOS before
installing Windows 2000, you will encounter problems with the Setup utility and Windows
2000 will not operate properly on computers with an outdated BIOS.
The following is the list of system BIOS versions that are supported by Windows2000
Professional:
APM-supported ThinkPad models:
ThinkPad Model
380E, 380ED, 385E
380X (233/266 MHz)
385X, 385XD (300 MHz)
560E
560X
760XD, 765D (9385 XGA)
765D, 765L
770
i Series 2611-4x0/4x1
i Series 2611-4x2/5x2
ACPI-supported ThinkPad models:
ThinkPad Model
240
380Z
390
390E
390X
560Z
570
600
600E (266/300 MHz)
600E (366 MHz or greater)
770E/ED
770X
770Z
i Series 2621-4x0/5x0/4x1/5x1

How to Update the System BIOS:

The following steps are required to update the system BIOS for your ThinkPad computer .
The latest Flash BIOS update disk file can be obtained from the IBM ThinkPad support Web
site:
http://www.ibm.com/pc/support/
must update the computer
computer. To take full advantage of
BIOS Name Version
I1ET49WW
ICET31WW
IFET19WW
HRET22WW
I8ET35WW
HXET60WW
HXET60WW
IDET36WW
IKB120WW
IQB120WW R01-A3e
BIOS Name Version
IRET54WW 3.05.00
IGET30WW
IJB103WW R01-G1
ILB093WW R01_B8
ISB041WW
IEET29WW
IMET57WW
IBET45WW
IHET40WW
INET28WW
IDET36WW
IIET40WW
IOET21WW
IXB128WW R01-A21
BIOS Date
12/03/99
12/03/99
12/06/99
12/01/99
12/17/99
12/09/99
12/09/99
09/17/99
V1.08 10/29/99
10/29/99
BIOS Date
11/26/99
09/04/99
11/01/99
11/11/99
11/24/99
09/23/99
11/02/99
09/18/99
09/11/99
11/20/99
09/17/99
09/10/99
09/10/99
12/11/99