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Sun May 27, 2012 1:41 pm Offline Joined: Sun May 27, 2012 1:25 pm Posts: 4 Location: Aberdeen, Scotland, UK HiI have a Thinkpad 770 (
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9548-31U ). When I put it away it was working.Today I powered it up and it came up with the error codes 00161 and 00163 which I understood indicated a flat CMOS / BIOS battery.I replaced the battery with a brand new one,
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but was unable to access the Easy Start Up menu by holding the F1 key down when the laptop was booting.Every time I tried it, it simply went to the error page listing 00161 and 00163.Am I doing something wrong or is the system / mother board faulty ?Many thanks to anyone who can offer any help. Top Profile Reply with quote BillMorrow Post subject: Re: Thinkpad 770 - Error Codes 00161 & 00163PostPosted: Sun May 27, 2012 2:00 pm Offline *Senior* Admin Joined: Tue ibm thinkpad error 00173 Apr 13, 2004 9:40 pm Posts: 7094 Location: ThinkPadLand it has been years BUT have you tried hitting the esc key first, so as to bypass the error codes..? _________________Bill Morrow, kept by parrots & cockatoosSysop - forum.thinkpads.com*She was not what you would call refined,She was not what you would call unrefined,She was the type of person who kept a parrot.~~~Mark Twain~~~ Top Profile Reply with quote intouble Post subject: Re: Thinkpad 770 - Error Codes 00161 & 00163PostPosted: Sun May 27, 2012 2:06 pm Offline Joined: Sun May 27, 2012 1:25 pm Posts: 4 Location: Aberdeen, Scotland, UK Hi I just tried that, but it did not help ?Is there anything else to try - I appreciate that it is an old machine. Top Profile Reply with quote rkawakami Post subject: Re: Thinkpad 770 - Error Codes 00161 & 00163PostPosted: Sun May 27, 2012 2:59 pm Offline Admin Joined: Sun Jun 04, 2006 1:26 am Posts: 9951 Location: San Jose, CA 95120 USA Welcome to thinkpads.com!If you replaced the CMOS (aka, backup) battery with a new one and you are still getting the 161 and 163 error codes, then you may be dealing with a Supervisor password. _________________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 dead. Files removed 8/28/12 by manufacturer's demand. Top Profile
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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, it's a Thinkpad and it was fairly cheap. After she got her Powerbook I http://www.stonetable.org/2005/06/28/reviving-dead-hardware-ibm-thinkpad-600/ installed Debian on it and used it as a backup laptop. A buddy of mine needed a machine for a while so 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 ibm thinkpad 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 ibm thinkpad error 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 you need to set the date/time. It's an ugly screen but it works. This quick and simple hack has given this old Thinkpad a new life. Armed with a fresh install of Ubuntu and a wireless card, I'll be rigging this up as a semi-permanent member of my wardriving setup. This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Technology by Adam. Bookmark the permalink. 88 thoughts on “Reviving dead hardware: IBM Thinkpad 600” Comment navigation ← Older Comments Dragontamer257 on February 10, 2007 at 8:20 pm said: Dude