3Com 3C389 manual Diagnostics Error Codes and Suggested Actions, Initialization Error Codes

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Diagnostics Error Codes and Suggested Actions

Initialization Error Codes

Failure during PC Card initialization usually indicates a hardware error on the PC Card. Reboot your PC using the diagnostic diskette (TokenDisk diskette #1 is a bootable diskette), and run the diagnostic program again. If the 3C389 PC Card continues to fail, replace the card and cable.

One of the following codes will be shown to indicate the results of the initialization test. The error codes are displayed in hexadecimal format and represent the BRING_UP_CODE set by the 3C389 PC Card.

0000 Initialization success

0020 Diagnostics could not be executed

0022 ROM diagnostics failed

0024 Shared RAM diagnostics failed

0026 Processor instruction test failed

0028 Processor interrupt test failed

002A Shared RAM interface register diagnostics failed

002C Protocol-handler diagnostics failed

0040 PC Card’s programmable timer for the computer failed (set by the microcode)

0042 Cannot write to shared RAM (set by microcode)

0044 Reading from shared RAM read-only area caused an incorrect error indication (interrupt)

0046 Writing into shared RAM read-only area did not cause an error indication (interrupt)

0048 Initialization timed out