What does error 10483 on a PS/2 mean?
Cesar da Silva
A friend of mine have a PS/2 model 55. When she tries to start the
system she gets an error 10483. What does it mean?
Please email your answer to: cesar.d...@abc.se
-Cesar-
Christopher Michael Chmura
model p70 and i received this error once I arrived at college. I had
to send the machine to IBM personal systems card repair in texas. I
previously tried to replace the hard drive. A new one for my machine
cost $1200 for a 120 meg drive from IBM in colorado. In the process
fucking Fed Ex dropped my machine (a p70 cost about $13K brand new).
Only the hinge for hte keyboard was broken. They didn't even reimburse
me fully for the shipping. IBM in texas replaced what ever the fuck
was broken (Sometimes I don't even know whether they knew what was
wrong. I think they just returned the original case with completely
new guts.) For $420 they fixed the machine which included replacing
the hard drive and keyboard and installed warp. I am eternally
greatful to IBM personal systems card repair in texas to say the least.
They are one of the few people I would ever trust again with my
machine.
I can recommend them without thinking twice about it.
Ian Wilson
104xx PS/2 ESDI Fixed disk errors
10480 PS/2 ESDI Fixed disk 0 failure
10481 PS/2 ESDI Fixed disk 1 failure
10482 PS/2 ESDI Fixed disk controller failure
10483 PS/2 ESDI Fixed disk controller failure
10490 PS/2 ESDI Fixed disk 0 error
10491 PS/2 ESDI Fixed disk 1 error
Replied by email and copied here for information...
--
Ian Wilson
Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England
daff
>
>Hi!
>A friend of mine have a PS/2 model 55. When she tries to start the
>system she gets an error 10483. What does it mean?
>
>Please email your answer to: cesar.d...@abc.se
>
>
Error code 10483 on a PS2 means it has an ESDI hard drive controller error.
Might want to try looking for a new controller card first... ;-)
if that doesn't solve your problem, then it is the electronics on the hard
drive itself that is the culprit... might want to go ide or scsi in that case.
Richard Wagner
10483 --> PS/2 ESDI Fixed disk controller failure
Other error codes on IBM PS/2 could be found in
ftp://ftp.pcco.ibm.com/pub/gen_text_files/ps2faq.txt
--
Richard Wagner
o............................................................................o
. rwa...@aixserv.mainz.ibm.de (Internet) .
o............................................................................o
Paul Guest
"Daff" is right that 10483 is an esdi drive error but wrong in assuming that you can change the controller card. It is on the system board. (Maybe that's what the ;-) was all about?)
I would make a first guess that the drive is faulty. I think that the cost of a scsi controller (mca) and drive for this machine would be a waste of money (and the case isn't big enough to take it anyway). Try to find a second hand esdi drive or use the machine for spares. Sorry to be so negative but I wouldn't waste money on a 386 MicroChannel machine. Sooner or later something else may go. Good money after bad...
Best wishes,
Paul.
--
Paul Guest
Oxford, UK
pa...@ianpaul.demon.co.uk
r...@mail.inforamp.net
>In article <435185$1...@ddi2.digital.net> da...@digital.net "daff" writes:
>
>> In article <42sit0$j...@oden.abc.se>, cesar.d...@abc.se (Cesar da Silva)
>> says:
>> >
>> >Hi!
>> >A friend of mine have a PS/2 model 55. When she tries to start the
>> >system she gets an error 10483. What does it mean?
>> >
>> >Please email your answer to: cesar.d...@abc.se
>> >
>> >-Cesar-
>> >
>>
>> Error code 10483 on a PS2 means it has an ESDI hard drive controller error.
>> Might want to try looking for a new controller card first... ;-)
>>
>> if that doesn't solve your problem, then it is the electronics on the hard
>> drive itself that is the culprit... might want to go ide or scsi in that case.
The model 55 is particularly prone to this error. I ran into it myself
when I had one of them. The cable tends to come loose over time and,
when it is loose enough, the error message results even though there's
nothing actually wrong with the drive or the controller. Try opening up
the case, pressing the cables firmly into position, then rebooting.
It worked for me.