Lenovo ThinkPad T570

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Hardware
PCI/USB ID
Working?
Touchpad
Yes
TrackPoint
Yes
Keyboard
Yes
Video
8086:1916
Yes
Webcam
04f2:b5ab
Yes
Bluetooth
8087:0a2b
Yes
Wi-Fi
8086:24f3
Yes
I219-LM
8086:156f
Yes
Audio
8086:9d70
Yes
SD card reader
0bda:0316
Yes
Fingerprint reader
Not tested
Mobile broadband
Not tested
Installation
Make sure that Secure Boot is disabled in BIOS Setup.
Configuration
BIOS Update
Install
this BIOS update
(or a newer one) to fix a
serious bug concerning hyperthreading
and issues with thunderbolt
[1]
[2]
, which can affect you even if you do not use thunderbolt.
[3]
See
Flashing BIOS from Linux
for details on how to install the BIOS without an optical drive; the
geteltorito
AUR
method is known to work on the T570.
Note: before flashing, you have to disable the Intel BIOS guard or risk bricking your laptop. In the BIOS, set
Security - Intel (R) SGX - Intel (R) SGX Control
to Disabled. Do the same for
Device guard
, if needed. If you corrupt your BIOS, you can fix it by flashing a working ROM directly into the EEPROM chip either with
a Raspberry Pi
or
a specialized programming device
[
dead link
2025-08-15—HTTP 404]
.
Healing a corrupted BIOS
If you got bitten by the
Intel BIOS (Boot) Guard
, you can follow these instructions to reverse the damage.
Open the bottom cover (
see video
)
Locate the chip containing the BIOS. It is under a black sticker (
see photo
). The model of the chip is MXIC MX25L12873F M2I-10G (
see datasheet
).
Connect your programming device to the chip using a SOIC8 clip. You should probably support the clip and its cable somehow, so it remains completely still.
Read the old BIOS image from the chip using
Flashrom
or the software that came with your programming device
Open the old BIOS image with
uefitool
AUR
In UEFITool, do File - Search - String and systematically input BIOS IDs that are found in the VERSION INFORMATION section of the Lenovo BIOS readme file found on the Lenovo BIOS download page
When you hit the corresponding ID, you will see something like this in the Message section of UEFITool: "Unicode text "N1VET31W" found in PE32 image section at offset 31B0h"
Download the BIOS with the matching ID from Lenovo's site (it has to be the same, because Boot Guard is looking at the specific cryptographic signature)
Install
geteltorito
AUR
Extract the boot image with a command like
$ geteltorito.pl -o n1vur04w.img n1vur04w.iso
Create a loop device
# losetup -P /dev/loop0 n1vur04w.img
Mount the partition found in the loop device
# mount /dev/loop0p1 /mnt
In the mounted partition, navigate into the directory named something like Flash/N1VET31W/
Copy the file with the extension FL1 into your project directory
Unmount
# umount /mnt
# losetup -d /dev/loop0
In your old corrupted BIOS, the section with the corruption is pinpointed by UEFITool with a message like "parseSection: GUID defined section can not be processed". Double-clicking the message will show you the volume it belongs to. In the
BIOS region
, you will replace the corrupted volume and all the preceding ones with healthy volumes extracted from the downloaded BIOS image. This type of minimal replacement is needed instead of replacing every volume, because UEFITool is not yet smart enough to preserve all the required Boot Guard data. UEFITool_NE (New Engine) is able to display the Boot Guard keys and signatures, but, as of the writing of this, is not yet able to do volume replacing. It is probably a good idea to use the
NE version
to do the extraction.
Open the FL1 file in UEFITool NE
Do Right-click - Extract as is... or Ctrl-E for each of the needed volumes (save them with names that preserve the order they appear in)
Open the corrupted BIOS in UEFITool (old engine version) and do Right-click - Replace as is... or Ctrl-R for the respective volumes
File - Save image file... under some different name
Flash the healed image back into the chip
If you find your
boot loader
is gone, install it using a live USB.
Bumblebee
Until bbswitch is updated to support the new power management method
, add
pcie_port_pm=off
to your
kernel parameters
.
Bluetooth
If you have a very weak Bluetooth signal when using Wi-Fi, make sure you have a recent
linux-firmware
. See
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1721271
for more information.