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I recieved my Lenovo Thinkpad X60t yesteday and wanted to update the bios on it, because the one that was installed on it was pretty old. I found out that according to Lenovo you need a CD drive or a 32-bit version of Windows installed, which I don’t have. Since I run Gentoo on the thinkpad. But there is a sollution for this problem. It’s done pretty easy. All you need is:

• The BIOS update – Remember to choose CD image.
• HP USB Stick formatter
• Windows XP or similar – can be done in wine.
• Winzip, winrar, 7-zip or similar.

When you have all these things you are ready to go!

Install the HP USB Stick formatter and place it somewhere you remember. I installed it on the desktop.
Go to the folder where you installed it and extract the HPUSBF.EXE file with winrar or whatever you use to a subfolder in the current directory. Now that you have extracted the files to a subfolder, run the HPUSBFW.EXE utility and format you USB Stick choosing Create DOS startup disk and selecting the subfolder you extracted HPUSBF.EXE to. Now we are almost done. Last step is to extract the bios to the USB Stick using winrar or similar to a subfolder on the USB Stick.

!NOTICE! it’s not a fault that is seems like there are no files on your USB Stick before you extract the bios to it – they are hidden.

Unmount the USB Stick and boot it. A DOS promt should appear, cd to the subfolder where the BIOS were extracted on the USB Stick and write command.com. The rest should be pretty easy

Source: ThinkWiki.org

So yeah, I saw that Zepto recently release a new BIOS update for my laptop, which is a Zepto 6324W. After I got my harddrive replaced in the laptop, I asked Zepto to fit in an Intel Turbo Memory module, it’s also known as a Robson module, since that is the codename of the product.

Anyways, after a BIOS update, it all seemed to work. Before the BIOS update it said that ReadyBoost was activated, but not ReadyDrive. I messed around with the drivers for the module a lot before the BIOS update, but now it seems to work fine.

According to anandtechs test of the Robson module, it can give you a little performance boost along with more battery time, though it isn’t much.