program 'not responding' during bios install

does anyone else experience this? I have experienced this the last 2 times i updated my bios; The program would just basically freeze and say 'not responding' and then a few mins later it would unfreeze and say the bios update completed successfuly. Is this normal? I have had no problems related to bios and everytime it did update, i checked the version so everything was installed correctly..so why does it freeze? Thanks

 

I have not had that happen. I have updated my BIOS twice, since I received my T61p. But, I never experienced anything like that.

 

"program is not responding" can mean pathology or it can mean that a program has made a call that just takes a really long time to process. When that call returns everything will clean itself up.

People do see that exact message from phlash when updating a bios. The instructions are, "do absolutley nothing" and to let the program finish.

 

Yes, I read the instructions, but I just wanted to know if anyone else has experienced this same phenomenon. The program eventually returns to the process and finishes; but I just found this to be odd

 

i had the same problem tonight.. when i checked the history, it said it was successful.. i just left it at that.

 

What did you do after initiating the BIOS flash? Did you strike a key or something... resulting in the BIOS flash telling you that the computer was busy?

 

absolutely nothing. didn't touch the computer until it was done

 

Wow, that is weird to say the least... but at least you are not alone. ...and, the process completed in spite of the anomaly.

 

It's not all that weird when you understand windows internals. Windows is constantly sending messages to running processes and it looks for responses. When a process is highly compute bound, something we try to avoid, you'll see the "not responding" message. When the compute bound portion is over and the process can respond to windows, then the condition is cleaned up.

I'm sure that bios updating is something that is not good to interupt with normal windows message traffic.

 

Wait a second..., are you guys/gals updating your BIOS in windows rather than creating the bootable cd? RISKY! This may be the difference, and why I do not observe the behavior. I never update the BIOS using Windows for obvious reasons. But, that certainly explains it...

 

You're right it does have it's risks, but that's what I've done on my 3000 and I'll do tomorrow on my t61p.

And thanks you for acknowledging that there are women here. I really appreciate that.

 

Well, I think it is personal preference at this point in the tech curve. I am just old fashioned I guess. What are your T61p specs? As for recognizing that there are females here, no pro.

 

I don't receive it until tomorrow so until then, I am speaking out of my figurative hat.

2.6 ghz processor, 4 gigs or memory, 200 gig 7200 rpm disk, 9 cell battery and 15.4" screen, fingerprint reader, AGN which I am going to replace with an Atheros card.

 

yep..i am using the .exe way..not bootable disk

 

Nice setup, that unit is certainly equipped to stand and deliver.

 

I don't think anyone ever doubted there are women here. My undergraduate major is Computer Engineering and 40% of our graduating class were females. So I always assumed there were women on here

One of the smartest people I know when it comes to computers is a woman I know from back in undergrad and she works for CISCO now