Ibm Thinkpad Error 192
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on June 28, 2005 by Adam I had an old IBM Thinkpad that I bought used at a local computer show for Dena. A Pentium II 233Mhz with a 5G hard drive and 192M of PC100 RAM. Not exactly high end but hey, thinkpad 600 cmos battery it's a Thinkpad and it was fairly cheap. After she got her Powerbook I
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installed Debian on it and used it as a backup laptop. A buddy of mine needed a machine for a while so
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I lent him the Thinkpad. I eventually got it back a year or so later but it wouldn't boot. Instead it greeted me with the BIOS error code "161, 192, 163″, which is computer speak for "What the fuck, I can't remember who or what I am." I did a little googling and found that this Thinkpad uses a very standard battery for CMOS, the CR2025, which can be bought damn near anywhere. I picked one up at Radio Shack for under $3.50 with tax. Getting to the BIOS battery is painfully easy. Remove the cover housing the memory and pull the top piece of memory. You might be able to work around it but why bother. From there, you can disconnect the battery lead and pull it free. It's just sitting there waiting for attention. The guy at Radio Shack was in awe of the yellowness of the battery. Apparently he's unfamiliar with modern marvels such as "shrink-wrapped plastic". In any case, we'll be cutting off the plastic coating shortly. Cut away the plastic coating. The negative and positive leads are stamped into the surface of the battery so you have to pry them off carefully. I used the flat blade of a screwdriver to work the lead away from the battery. Putting it back together is a bit of a cheap hack but it seems to work well enough. I cut small strips of electrical tape to secure the leads to the battery. I made sure to wrap the exposed leads to the wire so that there is no chance of them coming into contact with each other or anything else metallic in the case. Then I wrapped the entire thing for safe measure. Putting the battery back in place is easy, just reverse the process. Tighten it up and you're ready to go. The first time you power it up you'll get another BIOS error code, this one telling you that yo
our mobile theme. If CTH has helped you, please consider liking and sharing us on Facebook Search Forums Show Threads Show Posts Advanced Search Go to Page... Topic Tools #1 July 25th, 2004, 06:14 AM myhayk New Member Join Date: Jul 2004 O/S: Windows XP Pro Location: TX Posts: 7 IBM ThinkPad 600 192 Error Hello, maybe some of you had this error before. It's a 192 Error on my ThinkPad 600 old notebook. This is supposed to be a system fan error, but i'm not sure about it. Please reply if you know more about this, if you had a similar problem. Thank you. Mihai myhayk View Public Profile Find all posts by myhayk #2 July 26th, 2004, 02:58 AM Dodge CTH Subscriber Join Date: May http://www.stonetable.org/2005/06/28/reviving-dead-hardware-ibm-thinkpad-600/ 2001 O/S: Windows Vista 32-bit Location: Kentucky Age: 40 Posts: 6,420 Definately a cooling fan error. You should take this to an authorized repair shop and have them to fix it. (just my advice though) Here is IBM error code page. IBM errors Dodge View Public Profile Visit Dodge's homepage! Find all posts by Dodge #3 August 16th, 2004, 06:53 AM MarkH New Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 1 Actually... Quote: Originally Posted by myhayk Hello, maybe some of you had this error http://www.cybertechhelp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=44489 before. It's a 192 Error on my ThinkPad 600 old notebook. This is supposed to be a system fan error, but i'm not sure about it. Please reply if you know more about this, if you had a similar problem. Thank you. Mihai Error 192 could be due to three main things: 1. CMOS battery flat. 2. Cooling fan stuck/faulty. 3. Main board fault. Do you also get any other errors, eg., 161 or 163? If so, then the problem is very likely a dead CMOS battery (I just replaced the one on my old thinkpad 600 by coincidence :-). If not, see if the cooling fan is clogged with junk, and try cleaning it. Failing these two, it's time to take it to a servicing centre - they might just need to relace the fan if you are lucky ;-) Cheers, Mark MarkH View Public Profile Find all posts by MarkH #4 December 30th, 2005, 08:33 PM myhayk New Member Join Date: Jul 2004 O/S: Windows XP Pro Location: TX Posts: 7 CMOS Batery Sorry for taking my time to reply here but thank you so much for the advice. Could you please tell me what batter do they have so I can buy it before I actually open the laptop? Is it however, hard to change ot you just take the keyboad off? Mihai myhayk View Public Profile Find all posts by myhayk Bookmarks Digg del.icio.us StumbleUpon Google « Previous Topic | Next Topic » Topic Tools Show Printable Version Email this Pag
index » Classic ThinkPad Hardware » ThinkPad Legacy Hardware All times are UTC-05:00 Thinkpad Error 00192 Moderators: Moderator group, Admin group Post new topic Reply to topic Page 1 of 2 [ 39 posts ] Go to page 1 2 Next Print view http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=37413 Previous topic | Next topic Author Message Wingnut Post subject: Thinkpad Error 00192PostPosted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:50 am Offline Sophomore Member Joined: Tue Feb 06, 2007 12:25 pm Posts: 238 Location: Toronto Hi guys, This is my first post. I have done a lot of reading here and this looks like a great community. I tried to search on this problem before posting, but couldn't find an exact match to my problem. I bought a TP 600 2645 5NU on Ebay. The first few times ibm thinkpad I turned it on, it booted fine. But now it just gives me an ERROR 00192. When I run the test, it shows a system board error like this: DEV 001 ERR 96 FRU 3810 If anybody can help, I would be very appreciative. Also, maybe one of you 600 experts can help me on tis one. But if it is the system board, can I put one in from a 600E? I looked up the FRU part number from IBM and got 10L1711 for my TP600. ibm thinkpad error When I plugged that into E-bay, I found a system board from a 600E: http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie ... Track=true Although my specific computer is not listed, the FRU compatibility seems to match? Can I indeed upgrade? If I could put a system board from a 600e in my 600, then maybe i can increse the processor speed too? Thanks for any info you can provide. Top Profile Reply with quote rkawakami Post subject: PostPosted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 11:13 am Offline Admin Joined: Sun Jun 04, 2006 1:26 am Posts: 9951 Location: San Jose, CA 95120 USA Welcome to thinkpads.com! The error codes can be decoded from the Hardware Maintenance Manual, available from here: 600/600E HMM Starting from page 43, there's a table of error codes. FRU 3810 refers to the fan (38 ) or the system board (10). What may be happening is that the fan is not spinning up when the system is first powered on, thus the error. As far as replacing the 600 motherboard with one from a 600E, I have no personal experience in doing that. If you search around the archives, I'm sure somebody has confirmed if rhis does or does not work. I have a couple of 600Es but have never owned a 600. _________________Ray KawakamiX22 X24 X31 X41 X41T X60 X60s X61 X61s X200 X200s X300 X301 Z60m Z61t Z61p 560 560Z 600 600E 600X T21 T22 T23 T41 T60p T410 T420 T520 W500 W520 R50 A21p A22p A31 A31pNOTE: All links to PC-Doctor software hosted by me are dea