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n°4793
03-01-2005 at 08:47:56 AM

I'm trying to upgrade the bios on an i 1400 Series ThinkPad. It produced the floppy to do this okay, but when I reboot and let the flash program start its' thing, it comes back with a VPD error and doesn't even begin.

The error does not say what piece of hardware it's having a problem with. The battery pack is no good, but all other peripherals are okay. Any ideas?

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n°4795
03-02-2005 at 04:29:49 AM

download another copy of the bios and put it on a different floppy, i hope you have a workable drive though

..this is very useful and helpful place for information...

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n°4796
03-02-2005 at 09:23:13 AM

This was good advice. I noodled around the IBM Downloads site a little deeper, and found a VPD Checksum Error Patch. After I installed this, the Bios upgrade went fine.
Thank you.


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