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djtecksrl
02-23-2005, 12:46 AM
Hello y'all.

i got an IBM thinkpad 600x and i was cleaning the board and fand since it was really dusty, aso when cleaning the area were the CMOS back up battery is, the plug came out, and i plugged back in and now that i want to start my laptop it gives me the errors 161 and 163, i know that 161 is bad cmos battery and that 163 is set date and time, but when it boots up an admin password icon comes out, and i press enter and goes ok but then a green screen comes out with a halt icon (hand with the no circle around it) and says error, and it gives me the 161 and 163 errors. i press enter and it just takes me to a similar screen but this time it has a open book and a arrow pointing at it and the computer halts, and i need to get this computer back to life because all my work's work is in it. :censored .

if any one had this problem and got around to fix it please let me know how. coz the system was working fine before that accident happen. thanks.

Hubert NOUDJEP
03-01-2005, 06:28 AM
i got an IBM thinkpad 600x and i was cleaning the board and fand since it was really dusty, aso when cleaning the area were the CMOS back up battery is, the plug came out, and i plugged back in and now that i want to start my laptop it gives me the errors 161 and 163, i know that 161 is bad cmos battery and that 163 is set date and time, but when it boots up an admin password icon comes out, and i press enter and goes ok but then a green screen comes out with a halt icon (hand with the no circle around it) and says error, and it gives me the 161 and 163 errors. i press enter and it just takes me to a similar screen but this time it has a open book and a arrow pointing at it and the computer halts, and i need to get this computer back to life because all my work's work is in it. please can you help me?

wweber332
03-15-2005, 01:57 PM
I had a 600 that gave the same errors, Fortunately I also had a 600E. I switched the cmos battery and all was fixed. I don't know why yours went out that way, but I bet the battery is bad.