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701c lock up when booting to 16000MB RAM starting
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701c lock up when booting to 16000MB RAM starting
Hey everyone,
Just recently my 701c[s] does not want to boot properly. When I start the machine as normal, the bios counts up the RAM, although it always stops at 16000 KB. I have over that amount and whenever I switch RAM from an 8 MB, 16, 32, 64 it still locks at 16000. Notably, if I use either 8 MB or 16 MB, I am able to get past the count menu and get to the Windows 95 startup, although it locks up.
I have tried using my spare motherboard with a DX2 and it does not have the 16000 issue, although Windows 95 still does not boot. I am not sure if it is an issue from BIOS. Anyways I would very much like some help in fixing the Thinkpad.
Thanks in advance!
Just recently my 701c[s] does not want to boot properly. When I start the machine as normal, the bios counts up the RAM, although it always stops at 16000 KB. I have over that amount and whenever I switch RAM from an 8 MB, 16, 32, 64 it still locks at 16000. Notably, if I use either 8 MB or 16 MB, I am able to get past the count menu and get to the Windows 95 startup, although it locks up.
I have tried using my spare motherboard with a DX2 and it does not have the 16000 issue, although Windows 95 still does not boot. I am not sure if it is an issue from BIOS. Anyways I would very much like some help in fixing the Thinkpad.
Thanks in advance!
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Re: 701c lock up when booting to 16000MB RAM starting
How is your CMOS battery? Do you get a time and date error booting up?
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Re: 701c lock up when booting to 16000MB RAM starting
I desoldered my CMOS battery, although I do get the time and date issue when booting. Would a new CMOS remedy it?
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Re: 701c lock up when booting to 16000MB RAM starting
Likely but no certainty. There is a little green battery in a pigtail thing down by the modem. That is not what I am speaking of. Its the coin battery soldered into a little metal clip on the backside of the motherboard by the memory slots. Without a working battery there, motherboards exhibit all kinds of weirdness including memory errors.
Re: 701c lock up when booting to 16000MB RAM starting
Cooler22 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 18, 2018 8:49 pmHey everyone,
Just recently my 701c[s] does not want to boot properly. When I start the machine as normal, the bios counts up the RAM, although it always stops at 16000 KB. I have over that amount and whenever I switch RAM from an 8 MB, 16, 32, 64 it still locks at 16000. Notably, if I use either 8 MB or 16 MB, I am able to get past the count menu and get to the Windows 95 startup, although it locks up.
I have tried using my spare motherboard with a DX2 and it does not have the 16000 issue, although Windows 95 still does not boot. I am not sure if it is an issue from BIOS. Anyways I would very much like some help in fixing the Thinkpad.
Thanks in advance!
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