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thinkpad bios updating

drrnwbb · 2004-01-30 21:55:55

we've got an old thinkpad 600 running win95, and i want to put 98 onto it to make it easier to get online/connect to my win2k desktop. the ibm support pages say that before installing win98 i should go and update the bios of the laptop. ive never flashed a bios before, so im wondering is it something that i can just not do…

30-01-2004 10:55PM

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drrnwbb

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we've got an old thinkpad 600 running win95, and i want to put 98 onto it to make it easier to get online/connect to my win2k desktop.

the ibm support pages say that before installing win98 i should go and update the bios of the laptop. ive never flashed a bios before, so im wondering is it something that i can just not do before putting win98 onto it? (its made harder by the fact that my desktops floppy drive hasnt worked in about a year so i dont have any way to easily make - its 0000 on a friday night - the disk to do the flashing) (also, win 95 and the win 98 are both in finnish, so the whole thing is not gonna be a quick job)

any one got any experience of this?

dw

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