•Message:0182:BadCRC2.EnterThinkPadSetupandloadSetupdefaults.
Solution:ChecksumoftheCRC2settingintheEEPROMisnotcorrect.PressF1togotoThinkPad
Setup.PressFn+F9andthenpressEntertoloadthedefaultsetting.PressFn+F10andthenpress
Entertorestartthesystem.
•Message:0185:Badstartupsequencesettings.EnterThinkPadSetupandloadSetupdefaults.
Solution:ChecksumofthestartupsequencesettingintheEEPROMisnotcorrect.PressF1togoto
ThinkPadSetup.PressFn+F9andthenpressEntertoloadthedefaultsetting.PressFn+F10andthen
pressEntertorestartthesystem.
•Message:0187:EAIAdataaccesserror.
Solution:TheaccesstoEEPROMisfailed.Havethecomputerserviced.
•Message:0188:InvalidRFIDSerializationInformationArea.
Solution:TheEEPROMchecksumisnotcorrect(block#0and1).Thesystemboardshouldbereplaced,
andtheboxserialnumberneedstobereinstalled.Havethecomputerserviced.
•Message:0189:InvalidRFIDcongurationinformationarea.
Solution:TheEEPROMchecksumisnotcorrect(block#4and5).Thesystemboardshouldbereplaced,
andtheUUIDneedstobereinstalled.Havethecomputerserviced.
•Message:0190:Criticallow-batteryerror.
Solution:Thecomputerturnsoff,becausethebatteryislow .Connecttheacpoweradaptertothe
computerandchargethebattery,orr eplacethebatterywithafullychargedone.
•Message:0191:SystemSecurity-Invalidremotechangerequested.
Solution:Thesystemcongurationchangehasfailed.Conrmtheoperationandtryagain.Toclearthe
error,entertheThinkPadSetupprogram.
•Message:0199:SystemSecurity-Securitypasswordretrycountexceeded.
Solution:Thismessageisdisplayedifyouenterawrongsupervisorpasswor dmorethanthreetimes.
Conrmthesupervisorpasswordandtryagain.Tocleartheerror,entertheThinkPadSetupprogram.
•Message:0200:Har ddiskerror.
Solution:Theharddiskisnotworking.Makesuretheharddiskdriveisattachedrmly.RuntheThinkPad
Setupprogram;thenmakesuretheharddiskdriveisnotdisabledontheStartupmenu.
•Message:021x:K eyboarderror.
Solution:Makesurethattherearenoobjectsplacedonthekeyboard,orifyouhaveone,theexternal
keyboard.Turnoffthecomputer,andturnoffallattacheddevices.Turnonthecomputerrst;then
turnontheattacheddevices.
Ifyoustillseethesameerrorcode,dothefollowing:
–Ifanexternalkeyboardisconnected,dothefollowing:
–Makesurethattheexternalkeyboardisconnectedtothecorrectconnector.
–Turnoffthecomputeranddisconnecttheexternalkeyboard;thenturnonthecomputer.Makesure
thatthebuilt-inkeyboardoperatescorrectly.Ifitwas,havetheexternalkeyboardserviced.
–Referto“Diagnosingproblems”onpage121foradiagnostictestofthecomputer.Ifthecomputer
stopsduringthetest,havethecomputerserviced.
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