Dell OptiPlex GX100 User Guide - Page 74

No timer tick interrupt Non-system disk or disk error Not a boot diskette Plug and Play Configuration Error Read fault Requested sector not found Reset failed Sector not found Seek error Shutdown failure Time-of-day clock stopped If the message persists, reinstall your operating system. See the documentation that came with your operating system. A chip on the system board might Run the System Board Devices tests in be malfunctioning. the Dell Diagnostics. The diskette in drive A or your harddisk drive does not have a bootable operating system installed on it. A nonbootable diskette is in drive A. Either replace the diskette with one that has a bootable operating system, or remove the diskette from drive A and restart the computer. There is no operating system on the Boot the computer with a diskette that diskette. contains an operating system. The system has encountered a Turn your system off and unplug it. problem in trying to configure one or Remove all but one of the cards. Plug in more expansion cards. your system and reboot it. If the message persists, the expansion card may be malfunctioning. If the message does not appear, turn off the power and reinsert one of the other cards. Repeat this process until you identify the malfunctioning card. The operating system cannot read See "Troubleshooting Drives." from the diskette or hard-disk drive. The system could not find a particular sector on the disk, or the requested sector is defective. The disk reset operation failed. The operating system is unable to locate a sector on the diskette or hard-disk drive. The operating system is unable to find a specific track on the diskette or hard-disk drive. A chip on the system board might be malfunctioning. The battery may be dead. See "Troubleshooting Drives." See "Troubleshooting Drives." If the error is on the diskette drive, try another diskette in the drive. Run the System Board Devices tests in the Dell Diagnostics. Enter System Setup and correct the date or time. Time-of-day not set The time or date displayed in the system configuration information does not match the system clock. Timer chip counter 2 failed A chip on the system board might be malfunctioning. Unexpected interrupt in protected mode The keyboard controller may be malfunctioning, or one or more DIMMs may be loose. WARNING: Dell's Disk Monitoring System has detected that drive [0/1] on the [primary/secondary] EIDE controller is operating outside of normal specifications. It is advisable to immediately back up your data and replace your hard-disk drive by calling your support desk or Dell Computer Corporation. Power-on self-test (POST) has queried the enhanced integrated drive electronics (EIDE) drive for status information. The drive has returned a parameter from the call that indicates it has detected possible error conditions for its operating specifications. Write fault Write fault on selected drive The operating system cannot write to the diskette or hard-disk drive. If the problem persists, see "Troubleshooting the Battery." Enter System Setup and correct the date or time. Run the System Board Devices tests in the Dell Diagnostics. Run the System Memory and the Keyboard tests in the Dell Diagnostics. Once your computer finishes booting, immediately back up your data and replace your hard-disk drive. Restore the data to the replaced drive. If a replacement drive is not immediately available and the drive is not the only bootable drive, enter System Setup and change the appropriate drive setting to None. Remove the drive from the system. This should be done only after you have backed up the data. See "Troubleshooting Drives." System Beep Codes