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0190: critical battery eror

I have a IBM think pad in  shop
unit wont boot into windows with AC pluged in gives me 0190: critical battery error
will not start up with battery in unit at all
can not get into BIOS computer displays error 0190 and shuts down shortly after
I want to open up the machine but havent found a service manual for it yet

If anyone has anny ideas about the problem let me know

Also if you can find me a service manual for this machine that would be verry helpfull
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Oh ya its a think pad A31 forgot to mention that
Your battery pack is dead. Do you have the charger? Will that model run with external power and no battery inserted?

If it will run on charger only: Try running the PC Docotor Diagnostics version for that laptop first. Then check the results it gives on the battery.
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&q1=a31&uid=psg1MIGR-52202&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&cc=us&lang=en    (download is at the bottom)
Sorry meant to add this to the last post:

Here is the repair manual in PDF format:
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=psg1MIGR-39796&loc=en_US
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It does run for a short time with power adapter and not battery inserted but only for a short time then erroe 0109 and shuts down.

I do not have a external charger for the battery

boots into windows rarely 1 out of 20 trys
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main board problem replaced with new one unit working now