IBM Thinkpad 390X - BIOS Update with dead battery?

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user1690
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Hi guys!

Been googling for hours and havent been able to get this to work;

I wish to update my IBM Thinkpad 390X Bios with the newer version (0.55) but i cant because the battery is dead,

i have tried the "Create clean bootable floppy and copy/paste files from bios disk to new floppy" trick but when running"

FLASH2.EXE /U it just goes:

Updating Bios...
Update successfull!

And it does than in like 2ms, and when i check to see if it updated, it has not.

Anyone got any ideas?

-Thanks
edwin
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what version of the bios are you currently running?
edwin/evasive

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