Dell PowerEdge 800 User Manual

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during POST to terminate the
memory test.

No boot device available

Faulty or missing diskette
drive, optical drive, or hard
drive.

 

Check the Integrated Devices configuration settings in the System Setup
program. See "Using the System Setup Program" in your User's Guide. Ensure
that either SATA Controller, Diskette Controller, or IDE Controller is enabled.
If the system is booting from a SCSI controller, ensure that the controller is
properly connected. If the problem persists, replace the drive. See "

Installing

Drives

."

No boot sector on hard-disk drive

An operating system is not
on the hard drive.

Check the hard-drive configuration settings in the System Setup program. See
"Using the System Setup Program" in your User's Guide.

No timer tick interrupt

Faulty system board.

See "

Getting Help

."

Not a boot diskette

Not a bootable diskette.

Use a bootable diskette.

PCI BIOS failed to install

Loose cables to expansion
card(s); faulty or improperly
installed expansion card.

Ensure that all appropriate cables are securely connected to the expansion
cards. See "

Troubleshooting Expansion Cards

" in "Troubleshooting Your

System."

PCIe Degraded Link Width Error: Embedded

Bus#nn/Dev#nn/Funcn

Expected Link Width is n

Actual Link Width is n

Faulty or improperly installed
PCIe card.

Reseat the PCIe cards. See "

Expansion Cards

." If the problem persists, see

"

Getting Help

."

PCIe Degraded Link Width Error: Slot n

Expected Link Width is n

Actual Link Width is n

Faulty or improperly installed
PCIe card in the specified slot
number.

Reseat the PCIe card in the specified slot number. See "

Expansion Cards

." If

the problem persists, see "

Getting Help

."

PCIe Training Error: Embedded

Bus#nn/Dev#nn/Funcn

Faulty or improperly installed
PCIe card.

Reseat the PCIe cards. See "

Expansion Cards

." If the problem persists, see

"

Getting Help

."

PCIe Training Error: Slot n

Faulty or improperly installed
PCIe card in the specified slot
number.

Reseat the PCIe card in the specified slot number. See "

Expansion Cards

." If

the problem persists, see "

Getting Help

."

Plug & Play Configuration Error

Error encountered in
initializing PCI device; faulty
system board.

Install the NVRAM_CLR jumper and reboot the system. See

Figure A

-2

for

jumper location. Check for a BIOS update. If the problem persists, see
"

Troubleshooting Expansion Cards

" in "Troubleshooting Your System." If the

problem persists, see "

Getting Help

."

Read fault

Requested sector not found

Faulty diskette, diskette
drive, optical drive, or hard
drive.

Replace the diskette. Ensure that the diskette, optical, and hard-drive cables
are properly connected. See "

Troubleshooting a Diskette Drive

,"

"

Troubleshooting an Optical Drive

, "

Troubleshooting SATA Hard Drives

," or

"

Troubleshooting SCSI Hard Drives

" in "Troubleshooting Your System" for the

appropriate drive(s) installed in your system.

Remote Configuration update attempt

failed

System could not implement
Remote Configuration
request.

Retry Remote Configuration.

ROM bad checksum = address

Faulty or improperly installed
expansion card.

Remove and reseat the expansion cards. See "

Troubleshooting Expansion

Cards

" in "Troubleshooting Your System."

SATA Port n hard disk not found

SATA hard drive not
connected to port n.

Ensure that the hard-drive cable is properly connected. See "

Cabled SATA and

SCSI Hard Drives

" in "Installing Drives."

If a drive is not connected to port n, check that the SATA port is disabled in the
System Setup program. See "Using the System Setup Program" in your User's
Guide
.

Sector not found

Seek error

Seek operation failed

Faulty diskette or hard drive.

Replace the diskette. If the problem persists, see "

Troubleshooting SATA Hard

Drives

" or "

Troubleshooting SCSI Hard Drives

" in "Troubleshooting Your

System" for the appropriate drive installed in your system.

Shutdown failure

Shutdown test failure.

Ensure that all memory modules are properly installed. See "

Troubleshooting

System Memory

" in "Troubleshooting Your System." If the problem persists, see

"

Getting Help

."

The amount of system memory has changed.

Faulty memory module.

See "

Troubleshooting System Memory

" in "Troubleshooting Your System." If the

problem persists, see "

Getting Help

."

 

Information only, if you have
changed the memory
configuration.

 

The amount of tested memory is below the

minimum system configuration. System

halted!

Invalid memory configuration

See "

General Memory Module Installation Guidelines

" in "Installing System

Components."

 

Faulty memory module.

See "

Troubleshooting System Memory

" in "Troubleshooting Your System." If the

problem persists, see "

Getting Help

."

Time-of-day clock stopped

Faulty battery; faulty system
board.

See "

Troubleshooting the System Battery

" in "Troubleshooting Your System." If

the problem persists, see "

Getting Help

."

Time-of-day not set - please run SETUP

program

Incorrect Time or Date
settings; faulty system
battery.

Check the Time and Date settings See "Using the System Setup Program" in
your User's Guide. If the problem persists, see "

Troubleshooting the System

Battery

" in "Troubleshooting Your System."

Timer chip counter 2 failed

Faulty system board.

See "

Getting Help

."

Unexpected interrupt in protected mode

Faulty or improperly installed
memory modules or faulty
system board.

Ensure that all memory modules are properly installed. See "

General Memory

Module Installation Guidelines

" in "Installing System Components." If the

problem persists, see "

Troubleshooting System Memory

" in "Troubleshooting

Your System." If the problem persists, see "

Getting Help

."

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