No problem, I just happed to get the same exact laptop the other day on ebay, and it had the same exact issue, so I did what I told you to do, and it booted.
The cmos battery is dead, change it or remove it. To do this, open the ram cover on the underside of the computer (the little door about 2 inches by 4 inches.) In that, there is what looks like a watch battery, just slide it towards the back of the notebook, and it should pop out. Once out, the notebook will say again, error 161, 163 and it will ask you to input the date again. Do it, or don't, your choice but after that it will boot up.
@mihai209macovei I have the same problem but, I have changed the battery multiple times and I still get the messages. It prompts me to set the time, I do, reboot, it's in a repeat asks me again to set the time. The funny thing is when it tells me to set the time, the time is just the way I've left it...And yes I tried the "F1" command when boot up.
Change the CMOS battery...
Moneymaker278 1 month ago
When the error message comes up click restart and hold F1 until it starts booting try this it will work
iHateN00bs123 9 months ago
ok thnx
aguilaralexis80 1 year ago
@aguilaralexis80
No problem, I just happed to get the same exact laptop the other day on ebay, and it had the same exact issue, so I did what I told you to do, and it booted.
theforrestwalker 1 year ago
The cmos battery is dead, change it or remove it. To do this, open the ram cover on the underside of the computer (the little door about 2 inches by 4 inches.) In that, there is what looks like a watch battery, just slide it towards the back of the notebook, and it should pop out. Once out, the notebook will say again, error 161, 163 and it will ask you to input the date again. Do it, or don't, your choice but after that it will boot up.
theforrestwalker 1 year ago
@theforrestwalker Yes your right it worked after that!! thanks a bunch!!
rapkabi 4 months ago
Open it and change the CMOS battery. The error says that the CMOS battery is low!
mihai209macovei 1 year ago
@mihai209macovei I have the same problem but, I have changed the battery multiple times and I still get the messages. It prompts me to set the time, I do, reboot, it's in a repeat asks me again to set the time. The funny thing is when it tells me to set the time, the time is just the way I've left it...And yes I tried the "F1" command when boot up.
lewisvz 7 months ago
its from 1985 or sum and it was running on windows 95 but we tried upgrading it to 2000 den it jux did dis
aguilaralexis80 1 year ago
That thing is from 1997 i think it's running a linux OS and wouldn't be able to load hardly anything. Personally I wouldn't bother trying to fix it.
imppwnsrs 1 year ago