User`s guide

3-92 Agilent E6432A Microwave Synthesizer User’s Guide

Soft Front Panel Help

Errors and Failures Dialog Box

Read and Clear Error Queue

Read and Clear Error Queue, available from the Errors and Failures

Dialog Box, queries the synthesizer and reads all of the current error

messages from the synthesizer’s error queue, displays the errors in the

display buffer, and clears the synthesizer’s error queue. If error

messages are currently displayed in the Errors and Failures Dialog

Box, new messages are appended to the end of the list being displayed.

Reading error messages that begin with ERR from the error queue

remove them permanently. Reading error messages that begin with

FAIL remain on the error queue and are only removed when the

system’s power is cycled.

Messages that begin with FAIL are considered hardware failures and

the synthesizer must be repaired. All other error messages can be

resolved by the user. For hints on resolving an error message, refer to

“Error-Code and Fail-Code Messages” on page 3-93.

When the power to the synthesizer is cycled off and on, all errors in the

synthesizer’s error queue are lost.

TIP Because error messages are appended to the display each time the Read

and Clear Error Queue button is selected, the Clear Display button

should be selected to remove old error messages; a list of error messages

that are no longer valid may be displayed if this is not done.