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Floppy disk track 0 failed The diskette drive cannot read track 0 of the
diskette in the drive. Try another diskette.
If the problem persists, you may need to
replace the diskette drive.
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Floppy information invalid, The drive parameters stored in CMOS RAM do
run SCU not match the diskette drives detected in the
system.
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Hard disk controller error The hard drive controller failed to respond
to the reset command. Check the drive
parameters. Power down the system and check
all appropriate connections.
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Hardware information does The video adapter type specified in CMOS RAM
not match video card, run does not match the installed hardware.
SCU
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Keyboard controller failure The keyboard failed the self-test command.
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Keyboard failure The keyboard failed to respond to the RESET
ID command.
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No interrupts from Timer 0 The periodic timer interrupt is not
occurring.
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RAM parity error at A RAM parity error occurred at the specified
location xxxx (hex) location.
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ROM at xxxx (LENGTH yyyy) An illegal adapter ROM was located at the
with nonzero checksum (zz) specified address. An external adapter (such
as a video card) may be causing the conflict.
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Time/Date corrupt - run SCU The time and date stored in the real time
clock have been corrupted, possibly by a
power loss.
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Unexpected amount of The amount of memory detected by POST does
memory, run SCU not match the amount specified in CMOS RAM.
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Hard disk xx failure A failure or an error occurred when trying to
(or error) access the hard drive.
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Table 2-2. Fatal Error Messages
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Message Description Beep Code
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CMOS RAM test failed A walking bit test of CMOS RAM 3
location 0E (Hex) - 3F (Hex) failed.
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DMA controller faulty A sequential read/write of the 4
transfer count and transfer address
registers within the primary and
secondary DMA controllers failed.
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Faulty DMA page A walking bit read/write of the 16 DMA 0
registers controller page registers starting at
location 80 Hex failed.
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