BIOS Updates forum

Hi, has anyone figured out if there's a bios setting that will allow all three banks of memory to be recognized if 256Mb PC100 modules are installed in each slot? The BX chipset should recognize 1GB. My 770Z works fine with three sticks of 256Mb installed, but only 512Mb is recognized by the system....

Hi, I have a 770Z that came with the CD/DVD player option. I'd like to upgrade to a CD writer/DVD player. The DVD connector cable does have the now standard JAE-50 connector on the drive side, but apparently the CD industry has now standardized on a connector location that is about 3/8" (8mm) closer...

KachiWachi, I'll up your 2 cents with another 2 cents... The screws are not nylon, they're standard steel screws with a dollop of nylon on the thread area - the Thinkpad manual says "nylon-coated" screws, but that coating can only be found on part of the thread area. If the 600 does have some all ny...

Carlowdelete about re-using Thinkpad screws: My Thinkpad experience has been with a 770Z, but it's manual says the same thing about "nylon-coated" screws that "should only be used once". Nylon coating is just a form of vibration damping used to keep the screw from backing out under use. The common r...

I have a 770Z running XP with an 850 CPU running at 850, thanks to Sharedoc's cache tweak to cure the 127 error (this made booting from the XP CD possible - but very flaky - repeated "copy errors", I think due to the lack of L2 cache or overheating?). I'm re-enabling the L2 via Powerleap's PleapCCP ...