Yep, I did it earlier this year to my trusty 570. I followed all the instructions, and all seemed to go well, but it is well and truly bricked. It won't even go into the bios, much less start to boot.
---- Original message ---- >Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:53:57 -0400 >From: [email protected] >Subject: [Thinkpad] So, have you bricked a thinkpad with a bios update? >To: [email protected] > > I did, last night. I have a W500 running OpenBSD which is getting >better ACPI support. That doesn't work yet, but its close. Thinking >about things, it dawned on me to see how old my bios was, and its >pretty ancient. > >I got the iso image and roasted it, and booted it following the >usual directions. It never booted after that, and a call to ez-serve >got me into the queue for a box to send it off to the hospital. > >This is the first time I've managed to brick a thinkpad. What will >happen when it gets to the repair depot? Do they have a test jig >that will fix this, or is the system board trashed? > >All in all, very distrurbing. Does this happen often? > >--STeve Andre' >_______________________________________________ >Thinkpad mailing list >[email protected] >http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
