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Both external and internal serial ports are | 1. | Remove any serial port expansion | |
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| 2. | Clear CMOS. (See Appendix B, |
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| 3. | Reconfigure card resources and/or run |
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| Computer Setup or Windows utilities. |
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Both external and internal serial ports are | 1. | Remove any serial port expansion | |
| assigned to same IRQ. |
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| 2. | Clear CMOS. (See Appendix B, |
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| 3. | Reconfigure card resources and/or run |
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| Computer Setup or Windows utilities. |
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Hard drive is about to fail. (Some hard | 1. | Determine if hard drive is giving correct | |
Failure | drives have a hard drive firmware patch that |
| error message. Enter Computer Setup |
| will fix an erroneous error message.) |
| and run the Drive Protection System test |
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| in F2 Diagnostics. |
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| 2. | Apply hard drive firmware patch |
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| if applicable. (Available at |
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| 3. | Back up contents and replace hard |
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One or more SATA devices are improperly | Ensure SATA connectors are used in | ||
| attached. For optimal performance, the | ascending order. For one device, use SATA | |
| SATA 0 and SATA 1 connectors must be | 0. For two devices, use SATA 0 and SATA | |
| used before SATA 2 and SATA 3. | 1. For three devices, use SATA 0, SATA 1, | |
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| and SATA 2. | |
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Drivelock is enabled on one or more SATA | Either remove the Drivelocked SATA device | ||
RAID mode. | hard drives, and they cannot be accessed | or disable the Drivelock feature. To disable | |
| while the system is configured for RAID | the Drivelock feature, enter Computer Setup, | |
| mode. | change Storage > Storage Options > | |
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| SATA Emulation to IDE, and select File > | |
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| Save Changes and Exit. Reenter | |
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| Computer Setup and select Security > | |
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| Drivelock Security. For each listed | |
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| Drivelock is Disabled. Lastly, change | |
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| Storage > Storage Options > SATA | |
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| Emulation back to RAID and select File > | |
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| Save Changes and Exit. | |
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Processor is not supported by ROM BIOS. | 1. | Upgrade BIOS to proper version. | |
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| 2. | Change the processor. |
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POST numeric codes and text messages 241