Jonathan Berry wrote:
> 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.

I thought one had to initialize the system after setting the Date/Time and
THEN restart the machine.

So you're saying that even if the machine remains plugged in to AC and you
cycle it, with or without a CMOS battery installed, it keeps throwing the
161/163 error on BOOT?

> The other (from the parts machine) has no beeps on powerup,
> power light comes on, screen black/blank.  HMM > dead.

Yep, 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?

Yes.

> 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?

None that I'm aware of for the E.

Regards,

James

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