Dell Inspiron 3800 - Manual (Page 77)

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installed, properly seated, and partitioned as a boot device.
No boot sector on hard-
disk drive The operating system may be corrupted. Reinstall your operating system. See the documentation
that came with your operating system.
No timer tick interrupt A chip on the system board may be
malfunctioning. Run the System Board Devices tests in the Dell
Diagnostics.
Non-system disk or disk
error The diskette in drive A or your hard-disk drive
does not have a bootable operating system
installed on it. If you are trying to boot from the diskette, replace it with one
that has a bootable operating system.
Not a boot diskette There is no operating system on the diskette. Boot the computer with a diskette that contains an
operating system.
Optional ROM bad
checksum The optional ROM apparently failed. Call Dell for technical assistance.
Sector not found The operating system cannot locate a sector
on the diskette or hard-disk drive. You
probably have a bad sector or corrupted file
allocation table ( FAT) on the diskette or
hard-disk drive. Run the appropriate utility to check the file structure on the
diskette or hard-disk drive. If a large number of sectors are
defective, back up the data (if possible), and then reformat
the diskette or hard-disk drive.
Seek error The operating system cannot find a specific
track on the diskette or hard-disk drive. If the error is on the diskette drive, try another diskette in the
drive.
Shutdown failure A chip on the system board may be
malfunctioning. Run the System Board Devices tests in the Dell
Diagnostics.
Time-of-day clock lost
power Data stored in NVRAM has become
corrupted. Connect your computer to an electrical outlet to charge the
battery. If the problem persists, try to restore the data. To
restore the data, press <Fn><F1> to enter the
System
Setup program . Then immediately exit it. If the message
reappears, call Dell for technical assistance.
Time-of-day clock
stopped The reserve battery that supports the data
stored in NVRAM may be read. Connect your computer to an electrical outlet to charge the
battery. If the problem persists, call Dell for technical
assistance.
Time-of-day not set-
please run the System
Setup program The time or date stored in the System Setup
program does not watch the system clock. Correct the settings for the Date and Time options. (For
instructions, see "
System Setup Program .")
Timer chip counter 2
failed A chip on the system board may be
malfunctioning. Run the System Board Devices tests in the Dell
Diagnostics.
Unexpected interrupt in
protected mode The keyboard controller may be
malfunctioning, or an installed memory
module may be loose. Run the System Memory tests and the PC-AT
Compatible Keyboards test in the Dell Diagnostics.
Warning: Battery is
critically low. The battery is running out of charge. Replace the battery , or connect the computer to an
electrical outlet. Otherwise, activate save-to-disk suspend
(S2D) mode or turn off the computer.