Yep, 161 means dead CMOS battery. The 163 is time/date not set, which is caused by the dead battery.
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=LWIK-3SR4PW Rob RayBay wrote: > Anybody remember what these error codes mean in a 380ED Thinkpad: 00161 and > 00163. I am suspecting a dead CMOS battery, but this was originally a > Windows 95 machine, and hasn't been booted up for 7 years. > > > When you first turn it on, 161 and 163 come up in the upper left corner. > Then they come up on a big box, white with blue inside, a hand in a circle > with a slash and big letters ERROR. The numbers 00161 and 00163 are listed > below. > > Of course it has a dead battery; it hasn't been used in probably four or > five years. We had the power cord connect when the failure occured. > > Could this be a code for Dead CMOS battery? Or worse? > > RayBay _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
