Wow! Replying to myself after 5.5 years... :eek: I forget exactly what happened back then, but I soldered the wires to the motherboard, built the circuit to read the eeprom, and did all the other stuff in the article, and it all worked. The laptop has been running (constantly) ever since, and is *st...

I used "format /s [drive letter]:" in a DOS box to format and transfer the system files. I can see the two hidden files and command.com, but the 600X does not want to boot from the 64M SD card in either PCMCIA slot. It may be that there is no valid Master Boot Record on the SD card. Perhaps FDISK /...

Yeah, Ray has an excellent tutorial on how to go about recovering the supervisor password, although not for the faint hearted. How did the supervisor password get there in the first place? There are three possibilities: 1/ There was a password set by the previous owner, and I just never knew about i...

One of my favourite sci-fi TV series was LEXX.

You can't knock a show that has a sex-slave as a main character

-chuzz

Firstly, thanks very very much for all your help and suggestions. Especially rkawakami. I really do apreciate it. Its forums like these that keep oldies like us from going insane. 2) A supervisor, or BIOS, password. This one does not show itself unless you attempt to access the BIOS (holding F1 on p...

1) I believe that the system is working as it was designed to. Designed to continually display 161 & 163 error after replacing the CMOS battery? 2) You said it yourself: "a lock icon". As I said, I press Enter and it says OK. I think this may be where the problem lies? I never set any password. The...

please cut the meaningless hyperbole' and just ask an honest question without venting.. :BAAAD!: :) Sorry about the venting Bill, but I really did need to get it off my chest :) The question(s) are: - Why won't it recognise the new CMOS battery? - Why won't it drop into BIOS setup? - Why is there a...

The 161 POST error does not go away. Pressing the F1 key does nothing. This is what happens when I turn it on, with or without holding F1: 064960 KB OK 161 163 <beep><beep> Then the screen clears and it shows a lock icon. I press Enter and it says OK. Then the screen clears again and it shows an ERR...

My trusty old TP 770x is about to be thrown in the garbage. I sure am gonna miss it. Why? Well, it is now a useless piece of black plastic that won't boot anymore. After years of faithful service, the only thing it can do now is beep twice as it displays the dreaded 161 & 163 POST error codes, a stu...