Expansion cards, Hard drive, Expansion cards hard drive – Gateway 955 User Manual

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Chapter 6: Troubleshooting

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The diskette drive LED is lit continuously

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Remove the diskette from the drive. If the light stays on, try restarting your
server.

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Turn off your server, then remove the combination drive and push it in
again to make sure the drive is seated correctly. For instructions, see

“Replacing the CD/diskette drive in the Flex Bay” on page 49

.

Expansion cards

Your server does not recognize an expansion card

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Restart your server.

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Make sure that you have installed the necessary software or driver. For
instructions, see the card’s documentation.

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Reseat the expansion card and the riser card. For instructions, see

“Installing PCI expansion cards” on page 60

.

Hard drive

The hard drive cannot be accessed, or you receive a “General failure
reading drive C” error message

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If a diskette is in the diskette drive, eject it and restart your server by
pressing the reset button.

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Restart your server by pressing the reset button.

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Turn off your server, then remove all hard drives and push them in again
to make sure the drives are seated correctly. For instructions, see

“Installing

a hard drive” on page 54

.

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Run a verification from the SCSI BIOS.

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If your server has been subjected to static electricity or physical shock, you
may need to reinstall the operating system.

You receive a “Non-system disk” or “disk error” error message

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Eject the diskette from the diskette drive, then press E

NTER

.

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Make sure that your hard drive has an active partition. For more
information, see

“The master boot record is corrupted” on page 107

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