Dell 2900 owner manual 7. System Messages continued

Table 1-7. System Messages (continued)

Message	Causes	Corrective Actions
No boot device available	Faulty or missing optical/diskette	Use a bootable diskette, CD, or hard
	drive subsystem, hard drive, or hard-	drive. If the problem persists, see
	drive subsystem, or no boot disk in	"Troubleshooting a Diskette Drive" on
	drive A.	page 126, "Troubleshooting an Optical
		Drive" on page 127, and
		"Troubleshooting a Hard Drive" on
		page 129. See "Using the System Setup
		Program" on page 35 for information
		about setting the order of boot devices.

No boot sector on hard drive

Incorrect configuration settings in System Setup program, or no operating system on hard drive.

Check the hard-drive configuration settings in the System Setup program. See "Using the System Setup Program" on page 35. If necessary, install the operating system on your hard drive. See your operating system documentation.

No timer tick	interrupt	Faulty system board.	See "Getting Help" on page 147.
Northbound merge error -		The specified DIMM was unable to	See "Troubleshooting System Memory"
The following	DIMM has	establish a successful data link with	on page 124.
been disabled by BIOS:		the memory controller.
DIMM x
Not a boot diskette		No operating system on diskette.	Use a bootable diskette.
PCIe Degraded	Link Width	Faulty or improperly installed PCIe	Reseat the PCIe card in the specified
Error: Embedded		card in the specified slot.	slot number. See "Expansion Cards" on
Bus#nn/Dev#nn/Funcn			page 68. If the problem persists, see
Expected Link	Width is n		"Getting Help" on page 147.
Actual Link Width is n
PCIe Degraded	Link Width	Faulty or improperly installed PCIe	Reseat the PCIe card in the specified
Error: Slot n		card in the specified slot.	slot number. See "Expansion Cards" on
Expected Link	Width is n		page 68. If the problem persists, see
			"Getting Help" on page 147.
Actual Link Width is n
PCIe Training Error:		Faulty or improperly installed PCIe	Reseat the PCIe card in the specified
Embedded		card in the specified slot.	slot number. See "Expansion Cards" on
Bus#nn/Dev#nn/Funcn			page 68. If the problem persists, see
PCIe Training Error:			"Getting Help" on page 147.

Slot n

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