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TP 380/D/E/ED,385/D/E/ED - BIOS PN and Date Matrix

Applicable to: World-Wide

BIOS PN and Date Matrix for TP 380,385 for U.S. and Canada only.

Disk Ver.	Part Number	Date
1.03	05K3098	09-03-97
1.04	97H4577	10-28-97
1.05	97H4591	01/12/98
1.06	97H4605	03/18/98
1.10	97H4076	04/13/98
1.11	97H4125	06/26/98

Fixes:
1.03
- (New) Support for ThinkPad 380E, 380ED and 385ED.
- (New) Support for 5 Giga Byte hard disk drive.
- (Fix) (DSTN model under Japanese Windows 95 environment only) When an MS-DOS window is opened and switched to a full screen in DBCS mode, the screen becomes blank, unreadable or distorted.
- (Fix) When the system enters standby mode and you press the power switch, the system will be powered off without warning beeps (The system is not to be powered off in standby mode).
- (Fix) The system may be powered off when RediSafe option is enabled and the system enters the suspend mode.
- (Fix) (Japan only) When an external IBM CD-400/400S CD-ROM drive is attached to the system, the Alt+Ctrl+Del key operation (to reboot the system) doesn't work.
- (Fix) The cursor doesn't work intermittently when the system resumes normal operation from suspend mode.
- (Fix) The screen is not turned on intermittently by pressing any key or using any pointing device when "Resume on timer" or "Resume on incoming call" option is enabled and the system resumes normal operation from suspend mode.
- (Fix) 00197 error code appears on the confirmation panel of "Cancel to resume normal operation from hibernation mode".
- (Fix) The screen is distorted intermittently when the system resumes normal operation from suspend mode.
- (Fix) The system hangs intermittently when "Resume on timer" option is enabled and the system resumes normal operation from suspend mode.
- (Fix) Garbage screen appears when the system goes into hibernation mode from suspend mode.
- (Fix) When the system is powered with AC power and is using PC Card(s), the system may not be able to be turned on.
- (Fix) (Test menu in Easy-Setup) Looptest can't be stopped intermittently by pressing and holding Ctrl key then pressing Pause key.
- (Fix) (Test menu in Easy-Setup) (DSTN model only) Some lines at the bottom of "Solid & Striped & Diagonal Rectangles in mode 102h 800x600x16" test pattern are not displayed.
- (Fix) (Test menu in Easy-Setup) 00903 error occurs intermittently while testing "PARALLEL 3" in the parallel port diagnostic program.
- (Fix) System intermittently hangs while operating on battery power.

1.04
- (New) Conforming to a new revision of video chip.
- (Fix) Application program may not work correctly when ansi.sys driver is loaded under the DOS environment.
- (Fix) Audio sounds strangely when "Hibernate when battery becomes low" option is enabled and the system goes into hibernation mode, then it is turned on.

1.05
- (Fix) (Under Windows 3.1x) The screen becomes blank when "Screen Expansion" option is enabled and the screen resolution is 800 by 600 or higher.
- (Fix) Wrong color is intermittently displayed on the screen when the system resumes normal operation from standby mode. (The system with a new revision of video chip only.)
- (Fix) (Test menu in Easy-Setup) Yellow color bars are not displayed on display test patterns in the advanced diagnostic program. (The system with a new revision of video chip only.)

1.06
- (Fix) If you touch keyboard right after entering power on password, Key may not be entered.

1.10
- (Fix) Key is not sometimes inputted properly after a power supply was
turned on and Password was inputted.
- (New) Support for Windows 98.

1.11
- (Fix) System is hung if suspend is invoked at DOS full screen command
prompt on Windows 95.

Service Information

The System Program Service diskette installs System Program as follows:

ThinkPad Model	BIOS P/N	Date	Reserved BIOS Area*	Usable BIOS ROM Area*
380/380D/380E/380ED 385D/385ED	97H4125	06/26/98	C000-C7FF F000-FFFF	E000-EFFF

* NOTE:
- Memory Range C000-C7FF is reserved for Video BIOS.
- Memory Range E000-EFFF can be used as UMB (Upper Memory Block) by a memory manager such as EMM386.EXE.
- Memory Range F000-FFFF is reserved for BIOS.

The BIOS P/N and the date can be viewed by invoking Easy-Setup menu.

Trademarks
* IBM and ThinkPad are registered trademarks of IBM Corporation.
* Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
* Pentium is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation.

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	Hint Category	BIOS
	Date Created	03-12-97
	Last Updated	17-07-98
	Revision Date	16-07-99
	Brand	IBM ThinkPad
	Product Family	ThinkPad 380, ThinkPad 380D, ThinkPad 380E, ThinkPad 380ED, ThinkPad 385D, ThinkPad 385E, ThinkPad 385ED
	Machine Type	2635
	Model	Various
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