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From: nef@mace.cc.purdue.edu (paulhicks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: Re: Error code messages
Message-ID: <7019@mace.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 16 Mar 91 22:12:10 GMT
References: <91075.123516BACKD@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Reply-To: nef@mace.cc.purdue.edu (paulhicks)
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In article <91075.123516BACKD@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> BACKD@QUCDN.QueensU.CA writes:
>My model 70 PS/2 gave the error message 10483 on boot up.
>The system will not boot from the hard drive or from a floppy.
>However, the system reference disk and diagnostics run from
>the floppy drive and the diagnostics give a clean bill of health, no problems
>reported.
>The system gets as far as memory check, checks the floppy drive but fail
>prior to prompting for password input.
>Does any one have a listing to the PS/2 error codes, or can you suggest
>what might be wrong? I phoned IBM this AM but: no service contract - no help.
>I got more information about the problem by talking to my cats than to IBM.
>
>Don Back

Don, accoring to a list of error codes that was posted a few months
ago, the error, 10483 is "controller reset failure" or 
"controller (drv sel 0 - config/stat bad)".  I hope this helps.
Please don't ask me what it means, I have no clue.

Hope this helps, Paul


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