[email protected] wrote on 30 June 2009 15:01 EST: > For finding this out I tried to disable it (mouse was only moving out > of control), but upon reboot it seems impossible to at least get into > the BIOS, it just says "8611" and then reboots. No chance.
Just doublechecking here. You are holding down F1 until you see the 8611 error? Does it reboot directly without giving you a chance to press a button? If you are given a chance to press a different button then you could try pressing ESC once or try the process again and press F1 just once at that point. Sometimes you may be able to get into the BIOS that way. I would also experiment with trying to press and hold the F1 button at slightly different times: for e.g., start holding only after seeing the memory count start to go and let go as soon as you see the first flicker or error... Once you are in the BIOS, then I would recommend doing a CMOS edit rather than just disabling the TrackPoint. Disabling the TrackPoint through the standard BIOS interface won't stop the error messages I think since the POST sequence will still test for it. To stop the error from showing up you have to actually edit the CMOS itself and change a particular bit that controls the TrackPoint. More info on this edit is available on the Thinkpads Forum here: http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?p=248348#p248348 Phil. _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
