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error codes 163, 173, 192 and want restart can clear both 163 and 173
but can't clear 192. Can anyone tell me how to clear or where to find
the fan battery. thanks ramrod35209

Hey man. you kneed a new cmos, and a new fan. the new fan I have.
but the cmos i can get for you, you'll have too send it too me, or if you are expirenced, you can do it your-self. and i can help you. otherwise I recomend you send it too me, I won't charge any labour. just shipping cost. and then I will post results.
email me at JoelMc@outdrs.net I'll fix you right up for free.

Changing out the CMOS battery often clears up the fan issue. Without the CMOS battery the fan doesn't come on....change the CMOS first and see it that takes care of the problems....you can find them on eBay for cheaper than other places.

I replace cmos and that corrected the code errors but it wil not
bootup it will go to os sreen and loadup blue sreen flash and
restart all over again again. I don't have boot disc I got it
from my brother.
Thanks for any help you can give me.

I get also up to fan error- messege all the time. But the fan seems to do its job anyway. I kicks on when the cpu needs cooling.

wth is wrong? Maybe it have something to do with my cmos battery which seems to be bad.

ramrod35209 wrote:I replace cmos and that corrected the code errors but it wil not
bootup it will go to os sreen and loadup blue sreen flash and
restart all over again again. I don't have boot disc I got it
from my brother.
Thanks for any help you can give me.

At the start of the boot sequence, press F1 to enter the BIOS. Once there, run system diagnostics and see if you get any errors.

When the computer begins to boot up, press F8 to get to Windows start up options page. Choose something like: no restart on error. When you boot Windows again, it will stop at the error, telling you what the error is. Search microsoft.com with the error message, and maybe you can figure out what's wrong.