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- IBM ThinkPad 755CD/755CE/755CSE/755CV/755CDV/755CX November 26, 1996
- System Program Service Diskette Version 1.44
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- +--<< Important Information >>-----------------------------------------+
- | |
- | For DOS, Windows 3.1 and OS/2 Users: |
- | You can continue to update the system program in your ThinkPad |
- | with the System Program Service Diskette given here. |
- | |
- | For Windows 95 Users: |
- | You might be required to install the Mwave for Windows 95 after |
- | you updated your ThinkPad with this System Program Service |
- | Diskette. The version for the Mwave for Windows 95 should be |
- | Version 2.00 or higher. Without these installation, Windows 95 |
- | will not work correctly. |
- | When you update the system program with the System Program |
- | Service Diskette, please get the Mwave diskettes, and follow |
- | Mwave installation instruction document to install the Mwave |
- | support software in Windows 95 successfully. |
- | |
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- What This Diskette Does
- -----------------------
-
- The System Program Service Diskette given here can update the system
- program stored in the ThinkPad system to fix problems, add new functions,
- or expand functions. The supported models are as follows.
-
- - ThinkPad 755CD, 755CE, 755CSE, 755CV, 755CDV and 755CX.
-
- To determine if you have to update the system program or not, please
- refer to the "Summary of Change" section.
-
- To update the system program, please refer to the "Updating System
- Program" section.
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-
- Released Version
- ----------------
-
- Version 1.00 A fix for some problems
- Version 1.01 Pentium Processor Upgrade Support
- Version 1.20 A fix for some problems and New Models Support
- Limited Distribution
- Version 1.30 Windows 95 (beta) Plug and Play Function Support
- and fix for some problems
- Version 1.40 Windows 95 Support and fix for some problems
- Version 1.41 A fix for some problems
- Version 1.43 A fix for some problems
- Version 1.44 A fix for some problems
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- Summary of Change
- -----------------
-
- Key: <n.nn> Diskette Version (foe example, 1.00 means Version 1.00)
- (New) New Function or Enhancement
- (Fix) Correction to existing function
-
-
- <1.00>
- - (New) Add support for PC3270-J.
- - (New) (Password Menu in Easy-Setup) Add warning beep(s) at the password
- entry panel if password longer than 8 digits is entered.
- - (New) (Date/Time Menu in Easy-Setup) The default Year set of Date/Time
- panel is changed from 1994 to 1995.
- - The screen of TFT panel may have intermittently some noises at the low
- temperature.
- - The keyboard hangs at the password prompt of Hard Disk Password.
- - The system hangs when DOS 6.3/V (Japan) installer formats the hard disk.
- - A vertical bar appears on the left side of screen when an ISO CRT
- monitor is attached and also the simultaneous display mode is selected
- (STN color panel only).
- - The screen may be corrupted on resume operation.
- - 1.2MB format diskette in the external FDD can't be read.
- - Some printers may not work.
- - Ethernet remote IPL can't be done.
- - PCMCIA hard disk can't be booted up when more than three IDE/SCSI hard
- disk drives are attached to the system.
- - CD-ROM data in the internal CD-ROM drive may be corrupted when CD-ROM
- reading or CD-ROM to hard disk copying (755CD only).
- - Power-on or resume operation can be done even if the keyboard is raised.
- - Resume operation can't be completed when any keys are depressed during
- the resume.
- - The mouse (TrackPoint) hangs when the Power-on Password is set.
- - The serial or parallel data transfer fails when the SMI (System
- Management Interrupt) is generated.
- - The percentage of remaining power of Fuel-Gauge program may become over
- 100 % at the full charge.
- - The power source (AC Adapter or Battery) indicator of Fuel-Gauge program
- is not changed when the AC Adapter is attached.
- - The pop-up low battery warning message by ThinkPad feature doesn't
- appear when the remaining power of battery becomes low.
- - Battery discharge information becomes invalid when the keyboard is
- raised to go into the partial suspend.
- - The 'Resume on timer' is not performed when 'Resume on incoming call'
- is disabled in the ThinkPad feature.
- - The TrackPoint may hang on resume.
- - The screen may become blank when the system resumes normal operation
- from hibernation mode (STN color panel only).
- - A graphical hibernation message is not displayed when a specific
- PS/Value Point CRT monitor is attached and the system goes into the
- hibernation mode (STN color panel only).
- - The mouse (TrackPoint) hangs at suspend/resume operation when
- unattended resume is performed.
- - The screen may intermittently become blank when the system resumes
- normal operation from the suspend mode at the low temperature
- (STN color panel only).
- - The screen becomes blank when the LCD/external display switching key
- (Fn+F7 key) is continuously pressed very much many times.
- - The hard disk data may be corrupted when docked with the Dock-I with
- some video adapter cards installed.
- - The system may resume normal operation immediately when the system goes
- into the suspend mode (755CD only).
- - Suspend timer, Stand-by timer and Hibernation timer are performed later
- than the setup value (the timers are delayed).
- - Resume operation can't be done when both an AC adapter and an external
- keyboard are attached.
- - The spindle motor of PCMCIA hard disk drive doesn't stop when the
- system goes into the suspend mode.
- - The system hangs when the system goes into the safe suspend mode, and
- goes into the hibernation mode by the hibernation timer, and then
- powered on.
- - The password prompt appears twice when the system resumes normal
- operation by 'Resume on incoming call' or 'Resume on timer'.
- - (Date/Time Menu in Easy-Setup) A small bug in the Year set in the
- Date/Time panel.
- - (Test Menu in Easy-Setup) The Display Diag has the wrong message of
- 80x25x16 9x16 pattern.
- - (Test Menu in Easy-Setup) Error log isn't printed out during the DSP
- Diag (Advanced Diag mode).
- - (Test Menu in Easy-Setup) The arrow keys don't work correctly on the
- Diag panel.
- - (Test Menu in Easy-Setup) The screen becomes blue in the Display Diag.
-
- <1.01>
- - (New) Support Pentium processor upgrade kit.
-
- <1.20>
- - (New) Support 755CX/CV/CDV.
- - IBM Auto-ISA Token Ring card does not work.
- - Even if hibernation file size is invalid, error message is not shown.
- - Personalization feature has garbages on the screen.
- - The screen is distorted in the Windows DOS box after resuming normal
- operation.
- - COM3/COM4 with FIFO does not work after resuming normal operation.
-
- <1.30>
- - (New) Support Windows 95 (beta version) Plug and Play.
- - Under the DOS and OS/2 dual boot feature, OS/2 CD-ROM device driver
- can't detect the CD-ROM drive attached in OS/2 mode, if the CD-ROM
- sleep mode is once entered in the DOS mode.
- - CDPD adapter does not work.
- - (Test Menu in Easy-Setup) The system hangs when CTRL+K keys are pressed
- while the cursor is moving.
-
- <1.40>
- - (New) Support Windows 95.
- - (New) Support ThinkPad 755CX with VGA LCD model.
- - Year of date doesn't become 2000 after 1999.
- - The cursor on the screen of ISO compliant monitor has flickers
- (755CSE only).
- - Mwave error messages may appear on the DOS screen if Mwave DSP is
- disabled. (This depends on the version of Mwave drivers.)
- - If Mwave modem is disabled, the SCSI IRQ of Dock-II can't be changed to
- other than IRQ 11 in the Dock-II's SCSI Select utility.
- - RPL can't be made from the PCMCIA Token-Ring card installed in Dock-II
- when a PCMCIA ATA drive is installed in ThinkPad.
- - The cursor on the screen of ISO compliant monitor has flickers
- (755CSE only).
- - (Password Menu in Easy-Setup) When the supervisor password is changed
- after the POST 159 error (The hard-disk password differs from the
- supervisor password) is displayed, the hard-disk password is
- overridden by the supervisor password, which should not be changed.
-
- <1.41>
- - The serial or parallel port data communication is sometimes broken, or
- the modem/fax communication can't be established correctly
- - The screen of external CRT attached the video card which is installed
- in Dock-I or Dock-II may be frozen in the graphic mode.
- (The screen may be frozen when Windows initial logo screen appears.)
- - A part of Windows* 95 APM HCT doesn't pass.
- - In Windows 95, the system can't go into suspend mode when 'Standard'
- option is selected in the power management setting of
- ₧My ComputerÄ-₧Control PanelÄ-₧Power ManagementÄ.
-
- <1.43>
- - (Fix) Intermittent keyboard hang up problem when external mouse is
- connected.
-
- <1.44>
- - (Fix) A small amount (8KB) of data could be overwritten and lost
- under the following circumstances:
-
- - Hibernation is Enabled.
- - There is data present on the last cylinder of the Hard
- Disk Drive. This Is the last area on the drive to be used,
- but may contain user data if the drive has been full or
- contains very large files.
- - The ThinkPad actually enters Hibernation mode by pressing
- Fn-F12 or by customized power management options.
-
- NOTE: - The problem does not occur when creating the Hibernation
- file.
- - It only occurs when the ThinkPad actually enters
- Hibernation mode.
- - Only 2.1GB Hard Disk has this problem. There is no
- problem with other hard disks currently available from
- IBM.
-
-
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- Updating System Program
- -----------------------
-
- Notes: - You need an AC adapter and a charged battery pack to update
- the system program.
-
- - If your computer is attached to a ThinkPad Dock I, Dock II or
- a port replicator, turn off the computer and detach it before
- proceeding.
-
- 1. Print these instructions or display on another computer.
- 2. Firmly connect the AC adapter to the computer.
- 3. Insert the System Program Service Diskette into the diskette drive
- and turn on the computer.
- 4. Select "Read this first..." from the menu and carefully read the
- information that appears.
- 5. Press the Esc key to return to the menu.
- 6. Select "Update system program" and follow the instruction on
- the screen.
-
- Warning: Do not turn off or suspend the computer until the update
- has been completed. IF YOU TURN OFF OR SUSPEND THE
- COMPUTER WHILE THE UPDATE IS STILL IN PROGRESS, THE SYSTEM
- BOARD MAY HAVE TO BE REPLACED.
-
- After the update has been completed, do the following to make the
- changes effective.
-
- 7. Make sure the System Program Service Diskette is removed from
- the diskette drive, then turn off the computer.
- 8. Press and hold the F1 key, then turn on the computer. Hold the F1 key
- until the Easy-Setup menu appears.
- 9. If a password prompt appears, type the correct password.
- 10. Select Config, then select Initialize.
- 11. Select OK to initialize the system.
-
- Run the diagnostics to make sure that the computer runs with no errors:
-
- 12. Turn off the computer, press and hold the F1 key, then turn on
- the computer. Hold the F1 key until the Easy-Setup menu appears.
- 13. Select Test, then select Start to run all the basic tests.
- Various test patterns will appear on the screen.
- An OK will appear for each device that passes the test.
- 14. Verify that OK appears for all of the devices tested.
- 15. Press the Esc key to exit Test and turn off the computer.
-
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- System Program Information
- --------------------------
-
- Each version of the System Program Service Diskette contains the following
- system program (BIOS). The BIOS P/N and the date can be viewed by invoking
- Easy-Setup and selecting Config followed by System Board.
-
-
- Diskette BIOS BIOS
- Version P/N Date
- -------- ------- --------
- 1.00 91G0439 02-13-95
- 1.01 85G1944 03-17-95
- 1.20 91G0722 04-25-95
- 1.30 91G0730 06-30-95
- 1.40 91G1223 09-12-95
- 1.41 91G1529 01-18-96
- 1.43 91G1873 08-07-96
- 1.44 91G2006 11-07-96
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- Service Information
- -------------------
-
- The System Program Service diskette installs System Program as follows.
-
-
- Reserved Usable
- ThinkPad Model BIOS P/N Date BIOS Area* BIOS ROM Area*
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------
- 755CD/CE/CSE/CV/CDV/CX 91G2006 11/07/96 C000-C7FF E000-EFFF
- F000-FFFF
-
-
- * NOTE: - Memory Range C000-C7FF is reserved for Video BIOS.
- - Memory Range E000-EFFF can be used as UMB (Upper Memory Block)
- by a memory manager such as EMM386.EXE.
- - Memory Range F000-FFFF is reserved for BIOS.
- - If desired, Video BIOS may be relocated from C000-C7FF to
- E800-EFFF. In this case, C000-C7FF may be used as UMB and
- E000-E7FF may be used as UMB.
- See User's Guide for details.
-
-
- The BIOS P/N and the date can be viewed by invoking Easy-Setup and
- selecting Config followed by System Board.
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- * Windows is a Trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
- * Pentium is a Trademark of Intel Corporation.
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