ThinkPad Edge E540 - Numeric Error Codes

•“Errormessages”onpage42
•“No-beepsymptoms”onpage42
•“LCD-relatedsymptoms”onpage43
•“Intermittentproblems”onpage43
•“Undeterminedproblems”onpage43
Thesymptom-to-FRUindexinthissectionlistssymptomsanderrorsandtheirpossiblecauses.Themost
likelycauseislistedrst,inboldfacetype.
Note:DotheFRUreplacementorotheractionsinthesequenceshowninthecolumnheaded“FRUor
action,insequence.”IfreplacingaFRUdoesnotsolvetheproblem,puttheoriginalpartbackinthe
computer.DonotreplaceanondefectiveFRU.
Thisindexcanalsohelpyoudetermine,duringregularservicing,whatFRUsarelikelytoneedtobe
replacednext.
AnumericerrorisdisplayedforeacherrordetectedinPOSTorsystemoperation.Inthedisplays,ncan
beanynumber.
Ifnonumericcodeisdisplayed,checkthenarrativedescriptionsofsymptoms.Ifthesymptomisnot
describedthere,goto“Intermittentproblems”onpage43
.
Note:ForadevicenotsupportedbydiagnosticcodesintheThinkPadnotebooks,seethemanualfor
thatdevice.
Numericerrorcodes
Table2.Numericerrorcodes
Symptomorerror(beeps,ifany)
FRUoraction,insequence
0177
BadSVPdata,stopPOSTtask—Thechecksumofthe
supervisorpasswordintheEEPROMisnotcorrect.
Replacethesystemboard.
0183
BadCRCofSecuritySettingsinEFIVariable.Enterthe
ThinkPadSetupprogram.–ThechecksumoftheSecurity
settingsintheEFIVariableisnotcorrect.
1.RuntheThinkPadSetupprogram.Thesettings
willbecorrectedautomatically.Thensavethe
currentsettingsbypressingFn+F10.
2.Replacethesystemboard.
0187
EAIAdataaccesserror-TheaccesstoEEPROMisfailed.
Replacethesystemboard.
0188
InvalidRFIDSerializationInformationArea.
Replacethesystemboard.
0189
InvalidRFIDcongurationinformationarea-TheEEPROM
checksumisnotcorrect.
Replacethesystemboard.
0190
Criticallow-batteryerror
1.Chargethebatterypack.
2.Replacethebatterypack.
0191
SystemSecurity-InvalidRemoteChangerequested.
1.RuntheThinkPadSetupprogram,andthensave
currentsettingbypressingFn+F10.
2.Replacethesystemboard.
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