Hi, I've been given this laptop as a non-bootable machine. Presumably because it had some forgotten password. I did go through the routine of shorting the password pads near the RAM chips. That might have done it or not, it turns out that pressing return at the password prompt prints a circle and an arrow with "OK" in it. Previously to that, right after the RAM check it prints 161 and 163 and beeps twice. From the manual these mean dead cmos battery and date/time not set, so I bought a new cmos battery on ebay and installed it. I still get the same errors, with the new battery installed (it is not defective: it has the correct voltage). After the beeps, and pressing "enter" to get the OK to the password prompt, a screen comes up with the 2 error codes and "OK" and "cancel" buttons. At this point, hitting enter or clicking (with the bird cursor) on either OK or Cancel, brings up another screen with the error codes and an arrow pointing to a picture of a manual. Then the system is frozen and all I can do is turn it off.
Turning it on while pressing F1 adds another (keyboard presumably) error but not the configuration/test menu. I have also pressed the reset button. It turns off the machine but on power-up the same thing happens. Putting in a bootable CD in the CD drive has no effect, putting the ps2 utilities in the connected floppy drive doesn't boot it. Removing the hard drive has no effect, removing the main battery has no effect. What else can I try? If pressing "enter" at the password prompt brings an "OK" circle, I presume I'm getting through that hurdle (and that password is not the one you can reset by shorting the pads, since the password prompt still appears). This is confusing, you would think that replacing the cmos battery would get rid of the cmos battery error codes. Help!!! Augustine _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
