Table 1-6. System Messages

System Message

Corrective Action

 

 

ROM bad checksum = address

Expansion card improperly installed or

 

faulty

Sector not found

Defective sectors on diskette or hard-disk

 

drive

Seek error

Defective sectors on diskette or hard-disk

 

drive

Seek operation failed

Faulty diskette or hard-disk drive

Shutdown failure

Defective system board

Spare bank enabled

DIMM sparing has been enabled

The amount of system memory

DIMMs have been added or removed

has changed

 

Time-of-day clock stopped

Defective battery or faulty chip

Time-of-day not set – please

Incorrect Time or Date settings or

run SETUP program

defective system battery

Timer chip counter 2 failed

Defective system board

Unexpected interrupt in

Improperly seated DIMMs or faulty

protected mode

keyboard/mouse controller chip

Unsupported CPU combination

The installed processors cannot be

 

installed at the same time.

Unsupported CPU stepping

Invalid processor stepping is detected

detected

 

Unsupported DIMM detected in the RAID DIMM slot!

Utility partition not available

Write fault

Write fault on selected drive

BIOS Update Attempt Failed

Warning! No micro code update loaded for processor n

DIMM installed in RAID DIMM slot is not supported.

Utility partition is not available on the hard disk

Faulty diskette or hard-disk drive

BIOS remote update failed

Micro code update failed

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