Thanks George. It's not mine either - I'm updating it for a friend who bought it today. But encouraged by your (mostly) good track record, I said the prayer, pulled the battery, and ... emerged scratch-free!
Nevertheless, I think I'll pass on updating the embedded controller. System Update didn't find any critical updates, so I probably shouldn't have tried the optional EC update to begin with.
Another question. The reseller this T43 was purchased from wiped the recovery partition. In the event I ever need to do a fresh reinstall on this, will the recovery CDs I have from an X32 work for the T43? I've used them on a T42 and they worked fine except for a few drivers that needed to be updated from lenovo.com.
On 10/9/2010 9:47 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Most likely, a completely hard shutdown (killing all the power) is the only thing which will turn it off. If the machine were mine, I'd say a quick prayer and do it. But it's not - so you have to make that call. I've been in similar situations, and have always gotten out of them scratch-free apart from once. Let's hope you get lucky with this one. Keeping my fingers crossed for you. Keep us posted. Cheers, George -----Original Message----- From: Ted Wiseman <[email protected]> To: Thinkpad Mailing List <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, Oct 10, 2010 12:40 am Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] T43 - updating embedded controller Update: As I expected, there was no response to the F3 key either. But this is strange - holding down the power button doesn't force shutdown. Is removing the A/C and battery the only way to power off? > I ran System Update on a T43 and chose some of the optional updates > available, among them updating the embedded controller. When System > Update was ready to install the embedded controller, it gave the usual > warning to close all open programs, which I did, and that the system > would power off and then restart, which it did. When the installer > opened, I selected #1 - Read This, and then #2 - to begin the update. At > that point the fan started up and a window appeared showing: > > Now updating > System will turn off when finished. > It may take about 30 seconds > Do not to turn off the computer during the update. > > The only problem is that the system never turned off, even after 30 > minutes. That screen is still up, and doesn't respond to the Enter, Esc > or F1 keys. The only other key option is F3=Exit. > > Has anyone had the EC update either freeze during installation or fail > to install? What's likely to happen if I force shutdown?
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