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  1. Bug #974455
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Comment 20 for bug 974455

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Tijn Schuurmans (tijns) wrote : Re: Lenovo u300s 't' key sends "Hiragana-Katana"

Thank you Takashi!

Last weekend I finally succeeded in installing (a borrowed version of) Windows 7 on a small partition to flash the BIOS.

To everyone struggling with the same thing: for me, the trick was to use the Windows USB Boot Tool on my old Vista laptop to create a bootable USB-stick. This is a small app MS provides to put an windows installation ISO image on a USB stick. (Who knew this existed? I didn't until the local computer shop guy told me about it last week.) When you run the Windows installer it will show an error about a missing DVD drive (well, duh.). You then have to put the USB stick in the other USB port and simply click "Install Windows" once more. This will trick the installer and it will not show the error again.

I flashed the BIOS with version 56cn43ww. Since then the T key and delete key behave as expected. I tried pressing ctrl+alt+win+shift+F2/F7 in all sorts of combinations to see if I can mess it up again... but to no avail (see my previous post). I really hope this has solved the issue. Fingers crossed.