Use F12 for Bootmenu. Please remember press the Fn+ F12 to make it work. If all do not work, make sure your keyboard is functional or try a external USB keyboard to check. To install Windows - insert Windwows DVD - Boot from disk - install as instructed On the Lenovo G500S you will have to push the little button next to the power button while the laptop is turned off or asleep, to enter the BIOS and boot menu. You can change the boot sequence by entering the BIOS and in there make the dvd-player the first boot device.
Unless lenovo does things really different, the bios doesn't know what case the motherboard is installed in. Since the machine type and serial number is just a sticker on that case I'm wondering how the bios knows the difference. Maybe the motherboard you received wasn't completely programmed by lenovo before being shipped. Nov 7, 2016 - From the Lenovo support site (search for. Use the below DOS command to flash the machine type and model, serial number, or system brand ID in BIOS. To flash serial number: amidedos.exe /ss “String”. The following command line shows how to update the machine type.
I like not having to worry about web pages flipping adjacent bits in memory , so I wanted to update my bios. I didn't want to use the Windows update utility (not running windows) or Lenovo crapware system update center that's on windows, so I went the route of the bootable USB. From a Ubuntu system running FDE on a Lenovo Thinkpad 440s, I did the following: Downloaded this: More or less followed directions here: If you do have windows and don't want to shut down, here's how to query your Lenovo Bios version number using powershell (should work on any version of powershell, definitely 2.0+): (Get-WmiObject -class 'Win32bios' -namespace 'root CIMV2' -computername '.'
).SMBIOSBIOSVersion Here's how to query if you're on ubuntu (and probably other linuxes): $ sudo dmidecode -s bios-version Unlike the tutorial linked above, my steps for creating the bootable USB are a little simpler, mostly because the tool, 'geteltorito' is installed by default in Ubuntu. How to update: Step 1: Create the bootable USB:.Note, this assumes your usb is /dev/sdb1. Download the iso here:. Run the following 2 commands: $ geteltorito -o bios.img gjuj13us.iso $ sudo dd if=bios.img of=/dev/sdb1 Done, USB should now be bootable. Updating the Bios with the bootable USB Then I shutdown, crossed my fingers, and booted from the USB (f12 brings up the boot media selection menu while booting if you haven't disabled that in Bios). If you don't care about details and just want to finish, select #2, next, Y, yes, yea, sure, do the thing, reboot without removing media, wait for flashing to happen, remove bootable usb, reboot, done.
Detailed version: When the usb loads, I have three options: 1. Read this first. This actually is pretty darn confusing and didn't really make sense the instructions are in Engrish, or were written by a drunk person. 'update system program'.
This does what I'm here for., yes, I want to continue Don't remove USB, press System reboots into USB again Flashing takes about a minute or two, then reboots. I removed the flash drive while it was counting down and it rebooted happily into my disk encryption prompt, then into my OS. Option 3 was to manually change your serial number. I didn't have a need for this as far as I'm aware. I kind of want to make it 'SKYNET' though. Next I'm going to enable boot protection, TXTmode, and security auditing on Bios and other strings and then will post an update on updating the bios when all that complication is added to the process. My next bios update should be considerably more complicated.
Let me know if anyone had issues with this method. Your bios image may be different than mine if your computer is not the T440s.