Dell DL2000 No boot device, No boot sector on, Hard drive, No timer tick, Following Dimm has

Table 1-7. System Messages (continued)

Message	Causes	Corrective Actions
No boot device	Faulty or missing	Use a bootable diskette, CD,
available	optical/diskette drive	or hard drive. If the problem
	subsystem, hard drive, or	persists, see
	hard-drive subsystem, or	"Troubleshooting an Optical
	no boot disk in drive A.	Drive" on page 143,
		"Troubleshooting an Optical
		Drive" on page 143, and
		"Troubleshooting a Hard
		Drive" on page 146. See
		"Using the System Setup
		Program" on page 45 for
		information on setting the
		order of boot devices.

No boot sector on	Incorrect configuration
hard drive	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 45. If necessary, install the operating system on your hard drive. See your operating system documentation.

No timer tick	Faulty system board.	See “"Getting Help" on
interrupt		page 167."
Northbound merge	The specified DIMM was	See "Troubleshooting
error - The	unable to establish a	System Memory" on
following DIMM has	successful data link with	page 142.
been disabled by	the memory controller.
BIOS: DIMM x
Not a boot	No operating system on	Use a bootable diskette.
diskette	diskette.

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