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I have a thinkpad at home running Windows 98SE and I get these error messages every so often and I'm wondering if you guys know what they mean.

When I turn it on, it comes up with:

64960 KB OK
173
163

Then it beeps a few times and this other screen comes up with:

Error
00173
00163

OK Cancel

Then I get this light blue screen with:

Date: 2003 08 27
Time: 21:59:35
OK Cancel

Then a flashing blue box with:

O > I
off on

Is this something simple to fix??

Thank you in advance.

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by dnevill

163 indicates time and date not set. 173 is lost configuration data. May just need to go into setup and reset the bios, or it could possibly be a bad bios battery.

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