IBM Thinkpad 600e 400Mhz. gives error code 0174 each time I power up.
I recently purchased it with no operating system, and found that the
CMOS battery was dead, so I replaced the battery. I run a system check
using F1 on power up and everything checks o.k. I set the boot
sequence to floppy first, CD Rom second and hard drive third, it won't
boot from windows 98 cd or from windows startup floppy disc. I know
that the origional BIOS version is still in the machine, I also know
that error 0174 is some kind of configuration error, but I don't know
how to fix it so that I can load windows, please help. posted by
hardboil1

Try to use this link it may help you.
http://www-1.ibm.com/support/search.wss?rs=0&lang=en&loc=en_US&r=10&cs=utf-8&rankfile=0&cc=us&spc=&stc=&apar=include&q1=0174&sort=rk&tc=&dc=DB500+D800+D900+DA900+DA800+DA600+DB400+D100&dtm

I too had a similar problem, but while installing windows XP. I found
out this is from a dead battery(main battery). i removed it from the
system and tried installing OS. it worked. Hope it will work for you
too.