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From: ashing@milton.u.washington.edu (Al Shing)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Model 70 Error codes
Message-ID: <6974@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 1 Sep 90 00:02:30 GMT
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In article <36671@ut-emx> readdm@walt.cc.utexas.edu (David M. Read) writes:
>I've got a friend who just bought an IBM PS/2 Model 70, and the silly thing
>fails the POST somewhere during the RAM check, exiting with an error code
>#162.
>

What a coincidence, mine does the same thing some mornings.

>Does anybody know what this error code is telling us?  He can't find the
>error-list anywhere in the manuals...
>

It means that the CMOS configuration data has been lost.  You can reset it
by booting from the Reference Diskette.  Possible causes are a weak battery,
or a problem in the motherboard.  

I believe that if you get dasddrvr.sys, and include it in your config.sys,
it will circumvent the problem.  I can't do this, because I am running an
AIX system.
-- 
    Al Shing (ashing@cac.washington.edu)