User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- About Your System
- Using the System Setup Program
- Installing System Components
- Recommended Tools
- Inside the System
- Opening and Closing the System
- Cooling Shroud
- System Battery
- Optical Drive
- Configuring the Boot Drive
- Hard Drives
- Installing a SAS Controller Card
- Fan Assembly
- Optional PCI Fan Assembly
- Power Supply
- Expansion Cards
- Riser Card
- System Memory
- Processor
- Control Panel Assembly (Service-Only Procedure)
- System Board (Service-Only Procedure)
- Troubleshooting Your System
- Safety First-For You and Your System
- Start-Up Routine
- Checking the Equipment
- Responding to a Systems Management Software Alert Message
- Troubleshooting a Wet System
- Troubleshooting a Damaged System
- Troubleshooting the System Battery
- Troubleshooting the Power Supply
- Troubleshooting System Cooling Problems
- Troubleshooting System Memory
- Troubleshooting an Optical Drive
- Troubleshooting a Hard Drive
- Troubleshooting Expansion Cards
- Troubleshooting the Microprocessor
- Running the System Diagnostics
- Jumpers and Connectors
- Getting Help
- Glossary
- Index
About Your System 29
Diagnostics Indicator Codes
The four diagnostics indicators on the system front panel display error codes
during system startup. Table 1-5 lists the causes and possible corrective
actions associated with these codes.
Write fault
Write fault on
selected drive
Faulty diskette, diskette
drive, hard drive.
Replace the diskette.
Ensure that the diskette
drive and hard-drive cables
are properly connected. See
"Troubleshooting a USB
Device" on page 102 or
"Troubleshooting a Hard
Drive" on page 111 for the
appropriate drive(s)
installed in your system.
Table 1-5. Diagnostic Indicator Codes
Code Causes Corrective Action
Possible processor
failure.
See "Troubleshooting the
Microprocessor" on page 114.
Memory failure. See "Troubleshooting System
Memory" on page 108.
Possible expansion
card failure.
See "Troubleshooting Expansion
Cards" on page 113.
Table 1-4. System Messages (continued)
Message Causes Corrective Actions
A B C D
A B C D
A B C D
= yellow
= green
= off
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