Advanced BIOS modification wanted desperately---- Thinkpad X61 tablet and T61

Hi all,

I've managed to get P8800 working on a X61 and thanks to el-sahef and highsun I also have a lightening fast Quad core T61. But sadly the crazy mods came to an hault on X61t (X61 tablet hereafter refered as X61t).

Plclife from 51nb has successfully installed a P8800 onto the X61t motherboard, but it failed to boot with a modified X61t BIOS with added P8800 microcode. However the X61t boots when the X61 BIOS is flashed (and ofc the tablet functions don't work). Further investigation reveals that this is not only a problem with BIOS, the EC(embedded controller) module also played a role. And this task is far beyond our ability.


Another request is, to improve the T61 Quad Core BIOS, which is a bit buggy and has some glitches. From the problems I observed ( forum.thinkpads.com • View topic - Install a 1066MHz FSB CPU on T61 (including Core 2 Quad)), I think the BIOS needs more work. The fact that Intel Enhanced Speedstep, and multi-core processing control failed on the additional two cores, and device manager lacks two CPUs point out that the rest parts of the BIOS is not ready for the two additional cores.

Basically, the support for additional cores is just added/attatched to the BIOS, but not integrated into, and this explains why many control function fails. I'm just wondering if someone could improve the BIOS upon the 2.29 middleton BIOS or preferably, the 2.30 BIOS with SATA 2 enabled, SLIC 2.1, whitelist check removed and hopefully, the 266Mhz external clock enabled as well.

Thanks in advance,