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• W520 Bios Update Utility 10 64-bit Windows

  Friends

  Earlier, I had a Thinkpad W520. Looks like a powerful machine. He already started level Win 10 Pro 64 bit.

  Now I tried to update the BIOS on this issue but don't know how to proceed. The current BIOS is:

  BIOS
  LENOVO brand
  Version 8BET55WW (1.35)
  Day 06/12/2011

  So, it is already 5 years old. I tried to find utility to update BIOS for 64 bit Win 10 on the Lenovo support site, but not been able to find one for this model. I find one for 64-bit Windows 8, but not to win 10.

  Can I use the Win 8 BIOS update utility to update my W520 at 1.42 BIOS? Or what are my options?

  Thank you

  Calle

  On machines like yours that were ever sold with pre-installed win10, I suggest burning to a CD and update the BIOS in this way.

• ThinkPad W520 - BIOS does not see mSATA SSD Samsung 850 EVO

  I bought a Samsung 850 EVO 1 TB - my W520 mSATA SSD does not see.

  This unit is compatible with the socket inside the W520 mSATA?

  And if not I can buy a controller mSATA?

  Thank you

  Everything works now - the reader was not sitting correctly

• Failure of 1.26 BIOS W520

  I just got my new W520 today. The unit shipped with BIOS 1.25. I ran a few tests of comparative analysis and could not see the Turbo, so I decided to upgrade the bios 1.26.

  I downloaded the bios utility and flashed the bios under Windows 7. Everything was good. Then I rebooted as the proposed utility.

  Then my machine freezes on the splash screen:

  'ThankPad '.

  To interrupt normal startup, press the blue ThinkVantage button.

  This form takes about 6 to 7 minutes, and then the computer restarts and stuck in this form again. I tried to press the blue button, but it wouldn't get into the BIOS.

  Can I force the machine to stop and restart? I'm afraid that would be detrimental to the BIOS flashing.

  Help, please!

  Problem solved...

  The system finally starts after I unplug the external monitor and hard drive...

• W520-downgrade bios, is it possible?

  Hello

  I have a BIOS 1.38 W520. I would go back to the bios 1.36. I read that it is possible, but could not find more information about this. Could I find the old version of the bios.

  Someone at - it experience with this or knows how it can be done?

  Thank you

  / Free software

  I read that it is possible from the rear at the BIOS level, but I've never needed to do.

  you will find the latest versions to your W520 from matrix driver here:

  http://support.Lenovo.com/en_US/research/hints-or-tips/detail.page?&docid=HT063273
  -ISO BIOS: http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS018887
  -EXE BIOS: http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS018884

  Scroll down to the bottom of each page for the links. personally, I prefer to use the bootable cd method to update. never had a ThinkPad bricked in 15 years.

  HTH.

• The limitation on the W520 with BIOS update?

  Hey everybody,

  My decision was very long, and whenever I get the motivation to upgrade to a W520, I always get worried about the forums. My main concern the limitation on the battery and the blocked processor clock. Since the last update of the BIOS, is it resolved? I can handle a small limitation on battery but 800 MHz is all just ridiculous. Before that I have finally let go of my money, buy the W520 in confidence that there is always these problems? I'll have to use this machine for at least 5 years, and if I have to start with these problems, I won't be a happy camper.

  Thank you.

  Hey, J,

  I think you get a view polarized the W520 on this forum. It is a solid and reliable machine. The limitation of problems have been resolved there are some revisions of the BIOS.

  Yes, it is not perfect in every way. However, it is a boon to the developer of this software. Yes, I use it to do the real work.

  Now that I've sung his praises, I'll do a 180 in saying that I would wait for the "W530" at this late stage of the game. This is probably only a few months at sea and can represent a significant improvement.

  BTW: If you want to get one, you will get a better deal by the way for one of the pre-built reseller like Amazon or Buy.com. It is much cheaper to do it and then upgrade only to have Lenovo customize it for you.

  For example, I went this route:

  Amazon W520

  I saw this as low as $1360 model. You can throw in a load of RAM for not much money.

  I wanted to talk, Buy.com stocks often this machine, and they have a 45 day return policy.

  There is my 2 cents.

  ZZ

• W520: Speedstep does not not correctly (on battery)! (BIOS v1.26)

  Hello

  Given that the main thread (here) of the Speedstep/mode was 'closed' by the Mark_Lenovo with a shocking statement (discussed here) we need a new thread to discuss the problems of official support with CPU-synchronizing.

  Here's the thing:

  Intel Speedstep technology does not work as it should on my W520 (4282-W17).

  To clarify:

  For my CPU (i7-2820QM) I'm on idle 0.8 GHz and 2.3 GHz frequency (free mode). So Speedstep should lift the clock of up to 2.3 GHz processor when carrots are used by a process.

  My investigations:

  -My CPU clock stuck at 0.8 GHz all the time on battery (even with full load)

  -The same thing happens even when I'm on AC!

  We NEED a fix for this issue! My iPhone is faster in the treatment as my new W520!

  Soko

  PS: For those who don't want to use mode all I have posted a solution here.

  Note from Moderator: Edition subject to the content of the game.

  
  

• New BIOS 1.37 W520 was posted:

  
  
  

• [W520]: who is running 32 GB of ram?

  Who is 32 GB of RAM running in their W520? Can you please post the brand and model # of the RAM used?

  I tried to RAM Kingston, Crucial, Corsair, and own internal Lenovo (Samsung) 8 GB of supported modules in my W520. The W520 has problems starting when "Integrated graphics" is selected (and OS of Optimus detection is disabled). It starts very well in dedicated graphic mode and Optimus. I have the latest version of the BIOS. The problem exists on Windows 7, Windows 8 and every flavor of Linux.

  The problem is that as soon as the graphics subsystem is initialized in Windows or Linux, the CPU gets attached to 100% usage, the system is extremely slow and CPU fans operate at full breath. I tested the RAM and the processor in the system of another manufacturer and all is well. I believe that the BIOS has a problem (which would be supported by a lot of people having this problem) or my specific motherboard is defective. I want to see if I'm the only one to have this problem so any help would be appreciated.

  This post is a continuation of a problem, I spoke in this thread: http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/W-Series-ThinkPad-Laptops/W520-Intel-HD-3000-iGPU-broken/td-p/821371

  
  

• Card nvidia, Linux Mint and W520?

  I'm on a W520 possessing a videocard of nvidia Quadro 1000 m, running Linux Mint 17 xfce (64-bit)

  Recentley, I came across a situation that required OpenGL 3.3. Best I can tell, my card intel integrated can support above 3.1!

  So I went to try to get the nvidia card work. Note to all the world at this point... Installation of the nvidia proprietary drivers directley Apparentley is the worst thing to do.

  I went to install the drivers of bumblbee (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bumblebee) and have since been frusterated with an nvidia card not working.

  I went to the cat bourdon, scourd the web for my problem, tried to re - install on a fresh USB... Nothing works.

  Has ANYONE else been in this situation? What are the steps that you took to get a functional nvidia card?

  Heres a dump of information from my problems. Basically, running glxgears optirun does not work.

  $ uname - a
  
  3.13.0 - 24-generic Linux sean-ThinkPad-W520 #47 - Ubuntu SMP Fri may 2-23:30 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
  
  ----
  $ optirun - vvv glxgears
  
  Reading file [DEBUG] [15874.859557]: /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf
  
  [15874.860504] [INFO] configured driver: nvidia
  
  [15874.861018] [DEBUG] optirun version 3.2.1 from...
  
  [15874.861098] Setup Active [DEBUG]:
  
  Configuration file [15874.861134] [DEBUG] bumblebeed: /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf
  
  [15874.861172] X [DEBUG] display: 8
  
  [15874.861207] [DEBUG] LD_LIBRARY_PATH: / usr/lib/nvidia-304: / usr/lib32/nvidia-304
  
  [15874.861245] Socket [DEBUG] path: /var/run/bumblebee.socket
  
  [15874.861281] [DEBUG] Accel/display Bridge: virtualgl
  
  [15874.861318] [DEBUG] VGL Compression: proxy
  
  [15874.861353] [DEBUG] VGLrun additional options:
  
  The LD of Primus [DEBUG] [15874.861389] path: / usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/primus: / usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/primus
  
  [15874.898691] [INFO] response: No - error: [XORG] (EE) NVIDIA (0): failed to initialize the NVIDIA GPU to PCI:1:0:0.  Please
  [15874.898733] [ERROR] can't access secondary GPU - error: [XORG] (EE) NVIDIA (0): failed to initialize the NVIDIA GPU to PCI:1:0:0.  Please
  [15874.898748] [DEBUG] Socket closed.
  
  [15874.898790] [ERROR] abandonment because the backup is disabled.
  
  [15874.898803] [DEBUG] kill all other processes.
  ----
  $ dmesg | tail
  
  [15687.546400] NVRM: rm_init_adapter (0) failed
  
  [15754.954991] NVRM: impossible to copy vbios for system memory.
  
  [15754.956859] NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0 x 30: 0xffffffff:867)
  
  [15754.956868] NVRM: rm_init_adapter (0) failed
  
  [15873.990268] NVRM: impossible to copy vbios for system memory.
  
  [15873.992196] NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0 x 30: 0xffffffff:867)
  
  [15873.992205] NVRM: rm_init_adapter (0) failed
  
  [15885.811425] NVRM: impossible to copy vbios for system memory.
  
  [15885.813323] NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0 x 30: 0xffffffff:867)
  
  [15885.813332] NVRM: rm_init_adapter (0) failed
  ----
  $ sudo bumblebeed - debug
  
  [16077.147754] [DEBUG] bbswitch has been detected.
  
  Method of switching [INFO] [16077.147856] 'bbswitch' is available and will be used.
  
  [16077.147896] Setup Active [DEBUG]:
  
  Configuration file [16077.147932] [DEBUG] bumblebeed: /etc/bumblebee/bumblebee.conf
  
  [16077.147968] X [DEBUG] display: 8
  
  [16077.148021] [DEBUG] LD_LIBRARY_PATH: / usr/lib/nvidia-current: / usr/lib32/nvidia-current
  
  [16077.148062] Socket [DEBUG] path: /var/run/bumblebee.socket
  
  [16077.148098] [DEBUG] pidfile: /var/run/bumblebeed.pid
  
  Xorg.conf file [DEBUG] [16077.148134]: /etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.nvidia
  
  [16077.148172] [DEBUG] xorg.conf.d dir: /etc/bumblebee/xorg.conf.d
  
  [16077.148207] [DEBUG] ModulePath: / usr/lib/nvidia-current/xorg, / usr/lib/xorg/modules
  
  [16077.148243] name [DEBUG] GID: Bumblebee
  
  Method of power [DEBUG] [16077.148278]: auto
  
  [16077.148314] [DEBUG] stop X to the output: 1
  
  [16077.148349] [DEBUG] Driver: nvidia
  
  [16077.148383] [DEBUG] Driver module: nvidia_304
  
  Stop State [DEBUG] map [16077.148418]: 1
  
  [16077.148673] [DEBUG] Process/sbin/modprobe started, 5234 PID.
  
  [16077.148791] [DEBUG] hide stderr for execution of/sbin/modprobe
  
  [16077.152464] [DEBUG] SIGCHILD received, but the wait failed with no child process
  
  [16077.152571] [DEBUG] Configuration test passed.

  
  [16077.152786] [ERROR] Daemon, already running, pid 2256

  ----

  modinfo nvidia_304 $
  file name: /lib/modules/3.13.0-24-generic/kernel/drivers/char/drm/nvidia_304.ko
  alias: char-major - 195-*.
  version: 304.117
  support: external
  License: NVIDIA
  alias: pci:v000010DEd00000E00sv * sd * bc04sc80i00 *.
  alias: pci:v000010DEd00000AA3sv * sd * bc0Bsc40i00 *.
  alias: pci:v000010DEd * sv * sd * bc03sc02i00 *.
  alias: pci:v000010DEd * sv * sd * bc03sc00i00 *.
  depends on:
  vermagic: 3.13.0 - 24-generic SMP, modversions mod_unload
  parm: NVreg_EnableVia4x:int
  parm: NVreg_EnableALiAGP:int
  parm: NVreg_ReqAGPRate:int
  parm: NVreg_EnableAGPSBA:int
  parm: NVreg_EnableAGPFW:int
  parm: NVreg_Mobile:int
  parm: NVreg_ResmanDebugLevel:int
  parm: NVreg_RmLogonRC:int
  parm: NVreg_ModifyDeviceFiles:int
  parm: NVreg_DeviceFileUID:int
  parm: NVreg_DeviceFileGID:int
  parm: NVreg_DeviceFileMode:int
  parm: NVreg_RemapLimit:int
  parm: NVreg_UpdateMemoryTypes:int
  parm: NVreg_InitializeSystemMemoryAllocations:int
  parm: NVreg_UseVBios:int
  parm: NVreg_RMEdgeIntrCheck:int
  parm: NVreg_UsePageAttributeTable:int
  parm: NVreg_EnableMSI:int
  parm: NVreg_MapRegistersEarly:int
  parm: NVreg_RegisterForACPIEvents:int
  parm: NVreg_RegistryDwords:charp
  parm: NVreg_RmMsg:charp
  parm: NVreg_NvAGP:int

  I have no experience with anything else that Fedora works on my W520, but before installing dual boot linux partition, I turn it on discrete rule. It is a bit of annoyance to have this go in the BIOS before the OS, but it of the only way I got everything to go smooth and figures.

• W520 light by fingerprint reader

  I just got a new ThinkPad W520 to replace my W510 and notice that I can't turn on with the fingerprint reader. My mark leads W510 is green when I opened the lid and not lit the W520. I can log on to Windows by using the fingerprint on the W520 reader but I have to turn on the power button. I compared the parameters between the two ThinkPads, and they seem to be the same. I have installed all the latest drivers and software for the W520, including the latest version of the BIOS. Any help would be appreciated.

  You must install Thinkvantage Fingerprint Software and go to settings. There you can define market of fingerprints in the safety market.

• ThinkPad W520 Win7 Bluetooth device not recognized by Windows 7

  Hi all

  Just got my Thinkpad W520 4270 CTO with bluetooth installed. It was a work station BACK I installed Win 7 x 64 Ultimate on and I finally got all the drivers installed, but the bluetooth software says it is no BT device connected to my laptop. I checked the BIOS settings and confirmed that the BT is enabled. I even turned off, saved, then he helped turn. Hit the Fn + 5 combo does not trigger the light or no matter what 'Found New Hardware'. When the laptop starts first BT light flashes and the wifi led and the HARD drive activity light. I was not yet able to load another OS, but I download Arch Linux and BackTrack 5 to test to see that it is perhaps a problem with OS.

  Thoughts or ideas would be useful, it seems that my Google-Fu me has missed as well.

  EDIT: I realize in the sticky on the "do not update the bluetooth drivers" but I do not get my bluetooth to work at all, not even recognized by the operating system as an "unknown device".

  I thought about it. It is ridiculously easy. Download the drivers for the keyboard shortcut key and install. It allow you to use the functions at the top of your keyboard, and then after reboot, press Fn + F5 and will you will get a menu to activate the Bluetooth on the operating system, then Win7 should detect and install the drivers for it, or you can download those from the Lenovo site.

• BIOS update - check

  Hello

  I have a Lenovo W520 and am trying to update my BIOS to possibly fix a problem with

  "sleep" mode. After completing the update of the BIOS and check the BIOS for the update

  The version here is what I have:

  UEFI BIOS version: 8BET60WW (1.40)

  2012-12-06

  What is the latest BIOS?

  racingmind wrote:

  Hello

  The version of the BIOS/Date - LENOVO 8BET60WW (1.40), 06/12/2012

  Thank you.

  You have the latest version of the BIOS.

• Beyond 4 GB mem W520 fails in 1 location only

  I have a dual core w520, initially with 2 x 4 GB. I'm moving to 2x8gb, but 8 GB dimm fails in a slot, but not the other. Same behavior with two DIMMs. Reported errors with memtest86 and weapons of mass destruction. Memtest reports different timings when even chip case is in different locations (lowest in the slot that fails).

  Any ideas on why it's a failure?

  In case anyone should find this and have had a similar problem... update BIOS to the latest version and performed hard reset (internal battery disconnected a bit) and issue went away. Tech of Crucial thought WHAT BIOS could have trouble with something on the more recent memory.

• Turbo boost does not work when active hyperthreading - W520

  I have ignored this issue for a long time, until I've decided to try to understand and fix it. My W520 would never go beyond 2.40 GHz, I tried all the tests in the book. Manager power AC power, BIOS enabled, the max value performance in what concerns all, power settings windows too. stress tests, single thread, multi-threaded, has no importance, it has always been to 2.40 GHz or less (800 idling). After much trial and error, I found that this turbo would work properly if hyperthreading is disabled in the BIOS. The CPU module and then between 800 MHz to 3.5 GHz as it should with active turbo. Why can I not use hyperthreading AND turbo? Is this normal?

  I also noticed that in the BIOS there is no option for turbo-boost. Just hyperthreading, multi-core and speedstep.

  W520, i7-2760qm, BIOS 1.40, all the latest recommended updates.