Ifthecomputerstilldoesnotstartup,calltheCustomerSupportCenterandaCustomerSupportSpecialist
willassistyou.
Spillsonthekeyboard
Withamobilecomputer,thereareincreasedchancesofspillingliquidsonthekeyboard.Becausemost
liquidsconductelectricity,liquidspilledonthekeyboar dcouldcreatenumerousshortcircuits,potentially
causingirreparabledamagetoyourcomputer .
Ifyouspillsomethingonyourcomputer:
Attention:Besurethatnoliquidcr eatesashortcircuitbetweenyouandtheacpoweradapter(ifinuse).
Althoughyoumightlosesomedataorworkbyturningoffthecomputerimmediately,leavingthecomputer
onmightmakeyourcomputerunusable.
1.Carefullyunplugtheacpoweradapterimmediately.
2.Turnoffthecomputerimmediately.Ifthecomputerdoesnotturnoff,removethebatt ery.Themore
quicklyyoustopthecurrentfrompassingthroughthecomputerthemorelikelyyouwillreducedamage
fromshortcircuits.
3.Waituntilyouarecertainthatalltheliquidisdrybefor eturningonyourcomputer.
Note:Ifyouwanttoreplaceyourk eyboard,youcanpurchaseanewone.
Errormessages
•Message:0176:SystemSecurity-TheSystemhasbeentamperedwith.
Solution:ThismessageisdisplayedifyouremovetheSecurityChipandreinstallit,orinstallanewone.
Tocleartheerror,entertheThinkPadSetup.Ifthisdoesnotsolvetheproblem,havethecomputer
serviced.
•Message:0177:BadSVPdata,stopPOSTtask.
Solution:ChecksumofthesupervisorpasswordintheEEPROMisnotcorrect.Thesystemboard
shouldbereplaced.Havethecomputerserviced.
•Message:0182:BadCRCofSecuritySettingsinEEPROM.EnterThinkPadSetup.
Solution:ChecksumoftheSecuritysettingsintheEEPROMisnotcorrect.EnterThinkPadSetupto
checkSecuritysettings,PressF10andthenpressEntertorestartthesystem.
Ifyoustillhaveaproblem,havethecomput erserviced.
•Message:0183:BadCRCofSecuritySettingsinEFIVariable.EnterThinkPadSetup.
Solution:ChecksumoftheSecuritysettingsintheEFIVariableisnotcorrect.EnterThinkPadSetupt o
checkSecuritysettings,PressF10andthenpressEntertorestartthesystem.
Ifyoustillhaveaproblem,havethecomput erserviced.
•Message:0187:EAIAdataaccesserror
Solution:TheaccesstoEEPROMisfailed.Havethecomputerserviced.
•Message:0188:InvalidRFIDSerializationInformationArea
Solution:TheEEPROMchecksumisnotcorrect(block#0and1).Thesystemboardshouldbereplaced,
andtheboxserialnumberneedstobereinstalled.Havethecomputerserviced.
•Message:0189:InvalidRFIDcongurationinformationar ea
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