Table 1-8. System Messages (continued)

Message

Causes

Corrective Actions

 

 

 

PCIe Degraded Link

Faulty or improperly

Reseat the PCIe card in the

Width Error:

installed PCIe card in the

specified slot number. See

Embedded

specified slot.

"Installing an Expansion

Bus#nn/Dev#nn/Func

 

Card" on page 78. If the

n

 

problem persists, see

Expected Link

 

"Getting Help" on

 

page 179.

Width is n

 

 

 

Actual Link Width

 

 

is n

 

 

 

 

 

PCIe Fatal Error

Faulty or improperly

Reseat the PCIe card in the

caused a system

installed PCIe card in the

specified slot number. See

reset: Slot n

specified slot.

"Installing an Expansion

or

 

Card" on page 78. If the

 

problem persists, see

Embedded

 

 

"Getting Help" on

Bus#nn/Dev#nn/Func

 

 

page 179.

n

 

 

 

Please check the

 

 

system event log

 

 

for details.

 

 

 

 

 

PCI BIOS failed to

PCI device BIOS (Option

Reseat the expansion cards

install

ROM) checksum failure

and expansion card cables.

 

is detected during

If the problem persists, see

 

shadowing. A cable to an

"Troubleshooting

 

expansion card is

Expansion Cards" on

 

unseated; an expansion

page 164.

 

card is faulty or

 

 

improperly installed.

 

Plug & Play

Error encountered in

Configuration

initializing PCI device;

Error

faulty system board.

Install the NVRAM_CLR jumper and reboot the system. See Figure 6-1 for jumper locations. If the problem persists, see "Troubleshooting Expansion Cards" on page 164.

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