AnumericerrorisdisplayedforeacherrordetectedinPOSTorsystemoperation.Inthedisplays,ncan
beanynumber.
Ifnonumericcodeisdisplayed,checkthenarrativedescriptionsofsymptoms.Ifthesymptomisnot
describedthere,goto“Intermittentproblems”onpage42.
Note:ForadevicenotsupportedbydiagnosticcodesintheThinkPadnotebooks,seethemanualfor
thatdevice.
Numericerrorcodes
Table2.Numericerrorcodes
Symptomorerror(beeps,ifany)
FRUoraction,insequence
0187
EAIAdataaccesserror-TheaccesstoEEPROMisfailed.
(twoshortbeeps)
Systemboard.
0189
InvalidRFIDcongurationinformationarea-TheEEPROM
checksumisnotcorrect.
(twoshortbeeps)
Systemboard.
0190
Criticallow-batteryerror
(twoshortbeeps)
1.Chargethebatterypack.
2.Batterypack.
0191
SystemSecurity-InvalidRemoteChangerequested.
1.RuntheThinkPadSetupprogram,andthensave
currentsettingbypressingFn+F10.
2.Systemboard.
0251
SystemCMOSchecksumbad-Defaultconguration
used.
(twoshortbeeps)
1.Chargethebackupbatteryformorethan8hours
byconnectingtheacpoweradapter.
2.ReplacethebackupbatteryandruntheThinkPad
Setupprogramtoresetthetimeanddate.
0271
Dateandtimeerror-Neitherthedatenorthetimeisset
inthecomputer.
(twoshortbeeps)
RuntheThinkPadSetupprogramtoresetthetime
anddate.
1802
Unauthorizednetworkcardispluggedin-Turnoffand
removetheminiPCInetworkcard.
(twoshortbeeps)
1.RemovetheMiniPCInetworkcard.
2.Systemboard.
Errormessages
Table3.Errormessages
Symptomorerror(beeps,ifany)
FRUoraction,insequence
Fanerror.
(fourshortbeeps,onelongbeep)
1.Fan.
2.Thermalgrease.
3.Systemboard.
Thissystemdoesnotsupportbatteriesthatarenot
genuineLenovo-madeorauthorized.Thesystemwill
continuetoboot,butmaynotchargeunauthorized
batteries.
Attention:Lenovohasnoresponsibilityforthe
performanceorsafetyofunauthorizedbatteries,and
Replacethebattery.
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