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Table 1-6. System Messages (continued)

Message

Causes

Corrective Actions

 

 

 

Operating system not found

 

See "Troubleshooting a Hard Drive" on

 

 

page 91. If the problem persists, see

 

 

"Getting Help" on page 107.

Please connect USB keyboard/mouse to USB ports on the back of the computer

The keyboard and/or mouse is not properly connected.

See "Troubleshooting a USB Device" on page 82.

Plug and play

An attached device is improperly

See "Troubleshooting Your System" on

configuration error

configured.

page 79.

 

 

 

Read fault

The operating system cannot read

See "Troubleshooting a Diskette Drive"

 

from the diskette or hard drive, the

on page 89 or "Troubleshooting a Hard

 

system could not find a particular

Drive" on page 91.

 

sector on the disk, or the requested

 

 

sector is defective.

 

Requested sector not found The operating system cannot read from the diskette or hard drive, the system could not find a particular sector on the disk, or the requested sector is defective.

See "Troubleshooting a Diskette Drive" on page 89 or "Troubleshooting a Hard Drive" on page 91.

Reset failed

The disk reset operation failed.

See "Troubleshooting a Diskette Drive" on page 89 or "Troubleshooting a Hard Drive" on page 91.

Sector not found

A faulty diskette drive or hard drive.

See "Troubleshooting a Diskette Drive"

Seek error

 

on page 89 or "Troubleshooting a Hard

 

Drive" on page 91.

 

 

 

 

 

Shutdown failure

A chip on the system board might be

Run the system diagnostics. See

 

malfunctioning.

"Running the System Diagnostics" on

 

 

page 97.

The amount

of system

Memory has been added or removed,

memory has

changed

or a memory module may be faulty.

If memory has been added or removed, this message is informative and can be ignored. If memory has not been added or removed, check the SEL to determine if single-bit or multi-bit errors were detected and replace the faulty memory module. See "Troubleshooting System Memory" on page 87.

The file being copied is too large for the destination drive.

The file that you are trying to copy is too large to fit on the disk.

Try increasing disk space on the destination drive by deleting unnecessary files.

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