Dell 840 manual Faulty or missing diskette drive, Optical drive, or hard drive, See Hard Drives on

Table 1-6. System Messages (continued)

Message	Causes	Corrective Actions
No boot device available	Faulty or missing diskette drive,	Check the Integrated Devices
	optical drive, or hard drive.	configuration settings in the System
		Setup program. See "Using the System
		Setup Program" on page 29. Ensure
		that either SATA Controller, Diskette
		Controller, or IDE Controller is
		enabled. If the system is booting from
		a SCSI controller, ensure that the
		controller is properly connected. If the
		problem persists, replace the drive.
		See "Hard Drives" on page 53.

No boot sector on	An operating system is not on the
hard-disk drive	hard drive.

Check the hard-drive configuration settings in the System Setup program. See "Using the System Setup Program" on page 29.

No timer tick interrupt	Faulty system board.	See "Getting Help" on page 121.
Not a boot diskette	Not a bootable diskette.	Use a bootable diskette.

PCI BIOS failed to	Loose cables to expansion card(s);
install	faulty or improperly installed
	expansion card.

Ensure that all appropriate cables are securely connected to the expansion cards. See "Troubleshooting Expansion Cards" on page 108.

PCIe Degraded Link Width	Faulty or improperly installed PCIe	Reseat the PCIe cards. See "Expansion
Error:	card.	Cards" on page 71. If the problem
Embedded		persists, see "Getting Help" on
Bus#nn/Dev#nn/Funcn		page 121.
Expected Link Width is n
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 number.	slot number. See "Expansion Cards"
Expected Link Width is n		on page 71. If the problem persists,
		see "Getting Help" on page 121.
Actual Link Width is n
PCIe Training Error:	Faulty or improperly installed PCIe	Reseat the PCIe cards. See "Expansion
Embedded	card.	Cards" on page 71. If the problem
Bus#nn/Dev#nn/Funcn		persists, see "Getting Help" on
		page 121.

PCIe	Training Error:	Faulty or improperly installed PCIe
Slot	n	card in the specified slot number.

Reseat the PCIe card in the specified slot number. See "Expansion Cards" on page 71. If the problem persists, see "Getting Help" on page 121.

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