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ibm thinkpad 380d

post #1 of 5
3/22/09 at 9:02am
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i know this is a dinosaur. i recently moved into a new home and this laptop came with the house and i am working on getting it running again.

when i boot it up it comes to a screen that says error 161 163
i googled it and it said it had something to do with the battery and the time and date. i pulled the battery and that didnt help. i cannot find a way to get into the bios. this is pretty much all the info that i have since this was a found computer. i tired booting from a 98 bootdisk but it still goes to the error screen before the disk gets read. any suggestions are welcome. i would like to see if i can get this computer back into working order. the economy sucks right now and i am not working much so i am looking for something to do in my spare time so this looks like fun.
thanks for any help you might have.


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video of boot process
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_TzcUXTSWw
here is the boot process of the ibm thinkpad 380d it error (code 161 and 163) if i press enter it goes to the date screen and when i press enter again it reboots and starts over.
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post #2 of 5
3/22/09 at 12:07pm
From what you have described (did not watch the video), I would say the computer is telling you the date and time needs to be set in the BIOS. The real-time clock battery is probably dead. You can try putting in the main battery, plug in the charger. Give it a couple of hours, then go into the BIOS and set the time and date.
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post #3 of 5
3/22/09 at 12:48pm
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i decided to pull the bios battery and it booted up fine.
this thing is a dinosaur. win 98 32mb of ram and not sure on proc speed yet but it is a pentium. lol
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post #4 of 5
3/22/09 at 12:56pm
Still running good is no dinosaur

Processor

* Processor (CPU): Pentium 150
* Processor internal clock speed: 150MHz
* Front Side Bus: 66MHz
* Processor manufacturer: Intel
* Math co-processor: Built-in
* L1 internal CPU cache: 32KB
* L2 internal CPU cache: ---
* L2 external CPU cache std/max: 256KB /256KB
* L2 external CPU cache type: ---
* Upgradable processor: No
* Processor upgrade options: ---
* Processor upgrade methods: ---
* BIOS type: Flash ROM
* Number of processors std/max: /
* SMP capable (multiple processors):
* Multi-processors bus (slots/speed): ---
* L3 cache:

cheers ...
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post #5 of 5
3/25/09 at 5:32am
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thank you for that information.
this laptop is about the same as my first desktop.
it was a pentium 166mhz with 32mb of ram and a 1gb hd
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