Hitachi SA200 manual Lonestar.boo sa200.fm Page 79 Friday, March 6, 1998 1053 AM

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A Maintenance and Troubleshooting

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Reset the laptop by pressing <Ctrl+Alt+Delete>. If the system completes the POST but the screen is blank, or if the screen lights momentarily and then becomes blank, contact Mastercare PC Service.

Turn the laptop off, wait a few seconds, and then turn the laptop back on. If the system completes the POST but the screen is blank, or if the screen lights momentarily and then becomes blank, contact Mastercare PC Service.

Symptom: The computer cannot write to a floppy disk

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The floppy disk may not be formatted. See “Formattin g Floppy Disks” on page 36 for more information.

The floppy disk may could be corrupted with a virus.

The floppy disk may be write protected. Eject the floppy disk and check that the write protect tab is not set. See “Write Protecting and Backing Up Floppy Disks” on page 37 for more information.

The floppy disk may be full. Use another floppy disk. The laptop’s Supervisor may have restricted access to the floppy disk drive.

Symptom: You receive a non-system disk or disk error message

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You may have inserted a nonbootable floppy disk in Drive A: (either a defective floppy disk or one without an installed operating system). Remove the floppy disk.

If this message is issued when you attempt to boot from your hard disk drive, insert a bootable floppy disk and check the integrity of your hard disk drive.

Symptom: The date and time are incorrect

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Use either the Windows 95 Control Panel or your laptop’s BIOS Setup program to enter the correct date and time.

If the date and time are still incorrect, contact your laptop dealer to change the system board battery.

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