Not sure where you got Embedded Controller Version. There's a couple of BIOS version numbers in kern.log
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd8f7, last bus=7 and apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac) -- Thinkpad T43 2.6.15-23/25, system slow to use due to CPU spikes https://launchpad.net/bugs/50024 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs