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	This guide documents fault diagnosis for the '''[[IBM PC Series 300]]''' family — IBM's corporate desktop line from 1994 through 2000. PC Series 300 troubleshooting inherits the '''classic IBM POST numeric error code series''' (161 / 162 / 163 CMOS battery cluster, 2xx memory, 6xx floppy, 17xx hard disk) and adds '''IBM SurePath BIOS''' beep codes plus generation-specific failure modes — particularly the '''CHHSI capacitor plague''' on PC 300PL 6862 / 6892 and the '''EDO vs SDRAM DIMM keying''' trap on the 6577 / 6587 / 6588 / 6589 boards.		This guide documents fault diagnosis for the '''[[IBM PC Series 300]]''' family — IBM's corporate desktop line from 1994 through 2000. PC Series 300 troubleshooting inherits the '''classic IBM POST numeric error code series''' (161 / 162 / 163 CMOS battery cluster, 2xx memory, 6xx floppy, 17xx hard disk) and adds '''IBM SurePath BIOS''' beep codes plus generation-specific failure modes — particularly the '''CHHSI capacitor plague''' on PC 300PL 6862 / 6892 and the '''EDO vs SDRAM DIMM keying''' trap on the 6577 / 6587 / 6588 / 6589 boards.