5 Troubleshooting Your PC
If Your PC Does Not Start
Message | Corrective Action and/or Explanation |
Operating system not found | Check whether the disk, HDD, FDD or |
| connected. |
| If it is connected, check that it is detected by Setup, see |
| “After Installing an IDE Drive” on page 64. |
| Check that your boot device is enabled on the Setup |
| Security menu. |
| If the problem persists, check that the boot device contains |
| the operating system. |
Missing operating system | If you have configured HDD user parameters, check that |
| they are correct. Otherwise, use HDD type “Auto” |
| parameters. |
Failure fixed disk | Check that HDD is connected. |
(preceeded by a 30” | Check that HDD is detected in Setup. |
| Check that boot on hard disk drive is enabled in Setup, see |
| “The HP Setup Program” on page 51. |
Diskette Drive A (or B) error | Check whether the diskette drive is connected. Check |
| Setup for the configuration, see “The HP Setup Program” |
| on page 51. |
System battery is dead | You may get this message if the PC is disconnected for a |
| few days. When you |
| the configuration information. The message should no |
| longer be displayed. Should the problem persist, replace the |
| battery see “Changing the Battery” on page 80. |
Keyboard error | Check that the keyboard is connected. |
Resource Allocation Conflict | Clear CMOS, see “To Clear the CMOS Memory” on page 68. |
device 0079 on motherboard |
|
Video Plug and Play interrupted or | You may have powered your PC Off/On too quickly and the |
failed | PC turned off Video plug and play as a protection. |
System CMOS checksum bad - run | CMOS contents have changed between 2 |
Setup | sessions. Run Setup for configuration. |
I/O device IRQ conflict | Serial ports A and B may have been assigned the same IRQ. |
| Assign a different IRQ to each serial port and save the |
| configuration. |
No message, system “hangs” after | Check that cache memory and main memory are correctly |
POST | set in their sockets. |
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