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Dell Precision 330 User Manual

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Solving Problems

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No boot sector on hard

drive

The system configuration

information in system setup may be

incorrect, or the operating system

may be corrupted.

Enter

system setup

, check the system

configuration information for the hard

drive, and if necessary, correct the

information.
If the message persists, reinstall your

operating system. See the documentation

that came with your operating system.

No timer tick interrupt

A chip on the system board might be

malfunctioning.

Run the System Board Devices tests in the

Dell Diagnostics

.

Non-system disk or disk

error

The diskette in drive A or your hard

drive does not have a bootable

operating system installed.

A nonbootable diskette is in drive A.

Either replace the diskette with one that

has a bootable operating system, or

remove the diskette from drive A and

restart the computer.

Not a boot diskette

There is no operating system on the

diskette.

Boot the computer with a diskette that

contains an operating system.

Please connect USB

Keyboard/Mouse to USB

port 1 on the back of the

computer.

The USB keyboard and/or mouse

must be connected to the port 1 USB

connectors.

Turn your system off, connect the USB

keyboard and/or mouse to one of the

Port 1 USB connectors, and restart your

system. See "

Back-Panel Connectors and

Indicators

."

Plug and Play

Configuration Error

The system has encountered a

problem in trying to configure one or

more expansion cards.

Turn your system off and unplug it.

Remove all but one of the cards. Plug in

your system and reboot it. If the message

persists, the expansion card might be

malfunctioning. If the message does not

appear, turn off the power and reinsert one

of the other cards. Repeat this process

until you identify the card that is

malfunctioning.

Read fault

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 "

Diskette Drive Problems

" and "

Hard

Drive Problems

."

Reset failed

The disk reset operation failed.

See "

Diskette Drive Problems

" and "

Hard

Drive Problems

."

S y s t e m M e s s a g e s

( c o n t i n u e d )

Message

Cause

Action