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by richtoy
Sat Aug 04, 2007 10:15 am
Forum: Notebook BIOS and other problems
Topic: 390E & 390X CPU upgrade questions...
Replies: 1
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390E & 390X CPU upgrade questions...

Hi Second post so be gentle with me I have a 333MHz PII 390E, a 400MHz PII 390X and a 450MHz PIII Dell Inspiron 7500. Both of the IBMs have 256Mb PC133 SODIMM (2x128Mb) and new 40Gb Hard disks and have been running XP in this configuration for the past 2+ years. The two IBMs belonged to my kids but ...
by richtoy
Fri Aug 03, 2007 8:20 pm
Forum: Notebook BIOS and other problems
Topic: IBM ThinkPad 600 BIOS update without working battery
Replies: 48
Views: 118484

Flashing a Thinkpad with a dead battery

The simplest way to flash a Thinkpad that has a dead battery (this applies to 390E & 390X for sure) is to press and hold the NumLk/ScrLk key at each prompt where you are invited to press 1 by the BIOS update program. You can use the standard IBM disk for this. You can see this documented if you open...