Hey Everybody, I'm doing some work on a friends computer. They have an IBM Thinkpad that was rebuilt w/ a 900 mobile celeron and 120 RAM, and runs windows XP home.
Here's the problem. At bootup, you get a couple error messeges.
0250: System battery id dead - Replace and run SETUP
0270 - Real time clock error
Those messeges lead me to believe that the battery on the motherboard is dead. But I get more messeges a couple seconds later:
ERROR
Warning: IRQ not configued - PCI
BUus : 00 Device : 13 Function : 00
ERROR
Warning: IRQ not configued - PCI
Bus : 00 Device : 0A Function : 00
ERROR
Warning: IRQ not configued - PCI
Bus : 00 Device : 0C Function : 00
Now this just leads me to believe the IRQ ports are not assigned properly, so I went into the bios and 4 of them were all set to 15. I changed tehm all to auto-select. Now when I reboot, if I'm plugged into the wall, it'll go past this and try to load windows, if I'm not it heads right into bios again. Anyways when it tries to load windows no matter what I select (safe mode, normal, etc...) it always gets the BOOT UNMOUNTABLE blue screen.
1 last thing. While I was snooping around the BIOS, on 3 seperate occasions both when I was plugged into the wall and when I wasn't, the BIOS froze.
So does anybody have any ideas as to what is happening here? My personal opinion is that the motherboard is failing, unless the battery on the motherboard is causing all this but last I checked I thought that battery only controlled the internal clock.
Anyways, any and all ideas will be appreciated, thanks loads
Peace -