Comments on: IBM 300 pl error 176

By: sshdrone

sshdrone — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:46:28 +0000

this is terrible. i mean jesus fellas. jesus. most mis-information among bloggers can be explained away but three steps. ugh. if your problem is due to security settings / asset control / rf-id errors and you are fairly sure of this you want to remove the tagging. don’t worry, no purple ink here. open up your case and root around for well, a security tag, mostly likely attached to the case by a sticky adhesive or Velcro. you will find this tag is grounded to your case with a subsequent connection to your motherboard. destroy these evil mechanisms of corporate “asset tagging”…Lol, reset your bios for good measure (erm, f1 for these old dinosaurs, del, f2 or f10 in most all other cases…you’ll figure it out…) and viola problem solved. at this point we’re splitting hairs over extra steps, but look for anything in the bios, under security, that relates to asset control / theft prevention / system locking and disable it. yes this was arrogant, but if you’re going to read THIS much it should at least have a point

By: limbo

limbo — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:23:44 +0000

great advise-worked 100% for me-replace with 2×1000 caps-25-10-2009

By: R k Agarwal

R k Agarwal — Sat, 03 May 2008 16:09:55 +0000

One year back, I bought hundred of this IBM PL 300 systems, Now one after another this system is showing 176 error, how painful it is. Now I have done all permutation combination of batter,bios,cmos battery. Now what to do. capacitors is problem for me. PLease help I am losing customers.

R K

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 19:00:39 +0000

Reply on Chijioke’s post:

Those 3 caps are wired parallel to each other. That means they behave like 1 big cap of 3×560=1680uF.

Any combination that is close to this is acceptable, as long as the caps are suited for at least 25Volts (higher is good, lower is NOT OK)
We used 2 caps of 1000uF instead of 3 caps of 560.
Check out my post on the Java forum: http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=569551&start=0&tstart=0

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 18:54:12 +0000

Thanks for using my photo as well. Glad I could help that many ppl recovering their old servers for a few bucks

Patrick

By: david.s

david.s — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 08:44:30 +0000

I have an IBM300PL which will not power on. Apparently due to the “Tamper Prevention” security. Happened after the box was turned off and the top cover was lifted off. Stupid thing will not power-on !!! Has happened twice now. The first time it happened. I just left it there for a about 3 weeks, came back and decided to turn it on, and what do you know ….It powered on ….

By: Chijioke

Chijioke — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 10:14:07 +0000

I manage a cafe with a lot of the IBM300PL computers and I have a similar problem but clearing the bois does not help. I noticed the a set of 3560UF capacitors(supposedly in Parallel) that are swollen but I can’t find 560UF capacitors in the local market. Is there another way around it?

By: joemomn

joemomn — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 04:54:45 +0000

i got the msg 176 with a demand to enter admin password ,
when i just inserted my new soundcard.

By: John

John — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 14:41:53 +0000

I tried ALL of your suggestions and still couldn’t get the computer to boot. I eventually ended with performing a new install of Windows XP with the help of the XP setup disks. This wan’t a big deal since there wasn’t really anything worth saving on the hard drive yet. Thanks for your help anyway!

By: Administrator

Administrator — Thu, 22 Sep 2005 14:54:01 +0000

great question John. I had emailed Dennis the solution, but i will post it here for you and other readers. There are a three main ways to do this. 2 of them require that you open the box to access the motherboard. 1 of them can sometimes be found in the bios setup screens. To access this, look for on-display clues when u first boot. It is usually accessed by pressing the F2 key. The bios sometimes has a reset to defaults entry. Try that first. Now onto the harder ways. I believe that IBM posts a diagram layout of the jumpers on the motherboard. These are usually designated with a J2, J3, and so on naming convention. Jumpers are little black (sometimes white) rubber pin connectors. You are looking for the cmos reset jumper. If you can’t find that you can remove the cmos battery. Sometimes these are easy to remove, but sometimes they are a pain. They look like a watch battery. Remove it, wait a few seconds, and replace. if you run into problems, email me and i will work with you on it.