Questions & Answers for: IBM ThinkPad cmos update

laptop giving a error 00161 & 00163 and also not going in bios setup why???? pls help me 161 - Dead CMOS battery. 163 - Date and time are not set clock not updated. Replace CMOS Batt: On the bottom of

...update to occur. (In IBM's infinite wisdom, they put this in as a failsafe so the system wouldn't shut off during the upgrade) The only thing I can think of that I haven't tried at this point is ...

cmos, so could you tell me what exactly it does, if it sounds like it needs repacement and do I have to do somthing with password or whatever to make a new one work? orrr can I just put in a new screw

...will get a error saying cmos error you need to update the time and date just select setup and update the right time and date than save and exit the computer will reboot and you shoukld be good to ...

...when I start my thinkpad. What can I do? The Thinkpad POST error code you are getting are :- 163 - CMOS error, clock is not updating 175 - Bad EEPROM CRC This is caused by either a faulty EEPROM

...cmos battery update bios but still problem now Assuming that you used the correct battery go ahead and unplug and replug the cmos batter back into its connector. Go into the BIOS and set the date and ...

CMOS battery anyway since it a very cheap fix. No joy. suggestions? worst case scenario is there a program that will pole an internet site say every 10 minutes to update the time so at least the clock

...update is needed or a dying CMOS battery on the motherboard. I'd search the IBM/Lenovo website using the error code you've listed here to get some suggestions. Try this link and look under error code ...

...update not sure though. I believe in laptops the fan is a integral part which must be plugged in to function , you have installed a new fan so i would suggest opening the computer again ...

Cmos Checksum Error Cmos checksum is bad Check CMOS and Memory Modules:::If the error message is "UNEXPECTED_KERNEL_MODE_TRAP," then it indicates you have problem with the memory of your computer. You