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Table 3-2. System Error Messages (continued)

Message	Definition	Probable Causes
Sector not	MS-DOS unable to	Defective sectors on dis-
found	locate sector on diskette	kette or hard-disk drive.
	or hard-disk drive.
Seek error	MS-DOS unable to	Defective diskette or
	locate specific track on	hard-disk drive.
	diskette or hard-disk
	drive.
Seek opera-	System could not find	Faulty diskette or hard-
tion failed	particular address mark	disk drive.
	on disk.
Shutdown fail-	System board chip	Defective system board.
ure	faulty.
Terminator/	System does not have	Terminator or add-in
processor	terminator or add-in	card improperly
card not	card.	installed, or no card
installed!		installed.
System HALTED!
Time-of-day	Backup battery low.	Defective battery or
clock stopped		faulty chip (defective sys-
		tem board).

Time-of-day	Time or Date settings in
not set	System Setup program
	incorrect, or backup bat-
	tery bad.

Incorrect Time or Date settings, or defective backup battery.

Timer chip	Timer circuit on system	Defective system board.
counter 2	board malfunctioning.
failed
Unexpected	Keyboard/mouse con-	Improperly seated
interrupt in	troller malfunctioning,	DIMMs or faulty key-
protected mode	or one or more DIMMs	board/mouse controller
	improperly seated.	chip (defective system
		board).
Warning-	At system start-up,	Defective system board.
Thermal	BIOS detected that one
probes failed	or both thermal probes
	are nonoperational.

Beep Codes and Error Messages 3-9