So I have two dead system boards. One fails with error 161 163 and a good backup battery. Even if you have no backup battery, a system showing these symptoms will take you to reset the BIOS clock and then power recycle--if it has a good system board. However these exact same error numbers ended for me with a message to read the hardware manual. I guess they ran out of diagnostic numbers. Anyway, the HMM says that if you have a good battery, the system board is dead.
The other (from the parts machine) has no beeps on powerup, power light comes on, screen black/blank. HMM > dead. That leaves me with a bunch of parts. I have a question. In the 600E, if you remove the modem card, obviously you're going to expect to have a BIOS error message, but will the machine still boot afterwards? And a second question, did anybody ever make anything else that would plug in where the modem board does? For example, was there ever an Ethernet card? -- happy Jonathan Berry and Erika http://members.shaw.ca/berry5868/fun.htm _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
