Installation and Troubleshooting Guide

installed expansion card.
"Troubleshooting Your System."
PCIe Degraded Link Width Error: Embedded
Bus#nn/Dev#nn/Funcn
Expected Link Width is n
Actual Link Width is n
Faulty or improperly
installed PCIe card.
Reseat the PCIe cards. See "Expansion Cards." If the problem persists,
see "Getting Help."
PCIe Degraded Link Width Error: Slot n
Expected Link Width is n
Actual Link Width is n
Faulty or improperly
installed PCIe card in the
specified slot number.
Reseat the PCIe card in the specified slot number. See "Expansion
Cards." If the problem persists, see "Getting Help."
PCIe Training Error: Embedded
Bus#nn/Dev#nn/Funcn
Faulty or improperly
installed PCIe card.
Reseat the PCIe cards. See "Expansion Cards." If the problem persists,
see "Getting Help."
PCIeTrainingError:Slotn
Faulty or improperly
installed PCIe card in the
specified slot number.
Reseat the PCIe card in the specified slot number. See "Expansion
Cards." If the problem persists, see "Getting Help."
Plug & Play Configuration Error
Error encountered in
initializing PCI device;
faulty system board.
Install the NVRAM_CLR jumper and reboot the system. See FigureA-2 for
jumper location. Check for a BIOS update. If the problem persists, see
"Troubleshooting Expansion Cards" in "Troubleshooting Your System." If
the problem persists, see "Getting Help."
Read fault
Requested sector not found
Faulty diskette, diskette
drive, optical drive, or hard
drive.
Replace the diskette. Ensure that the diskette, optical, and hard-drive
cables are properly connected. See "Troubleshooting a Diskette Drive,"
"Troubleshooting an Optical Drive," or "Troubleshooting SCSI Hard
Drives" in "Troubleshooting Your System" for the appropriate drive(s)
installed in your system.
Remote Configuration update attempt failed
System could not
implement Remote
Configuration request.
Retry Remote Configuration.
ROM bad checksum = address
Faulty or improperly
installed expansion card.
Remove and reseat the expansion cards. See "Troubleshooting
Expansion Cards" in "Troubleshooting Your System."
Sector not found
Seek error
Seek operation failed
Faulty diskette or hard
drive.
Replace the diskette. If the problem persists, see "Troubleshooting SCSI
Hard Drives" in "Troubleshooting Your System" for the appropriate drive
installed in your system.
Shutdown failure
Shutdown test failure.
Ensure that all memory modules are properly installed. See
"Troubleshooting System Memory" in "Troubleshooting Your System." If
the problem persists, see "Getting Help."
Spare bank enabled
Memory spare bank
enabled.
You can enable memory spare bank using the System Setup program if
the memory is configured to support this feature. For more information,
see "General Memory Module Installation Guidelines" in "Installing
System Components," and "Using the System Setup Program" in your
User's Guide.
The amount of system memory has changed.
Faulty memory module.
Information only, if you
have changed the memory
configuration.
See "Troubleshooting System Memory" in "Troubleshooting Your
System." If the problem persists, see "Getting Help."
Time-of-day clock stopped
Faulty battery; faulty
system board.
See "Troubleshooting the System Battery" in "Troubleshooting Your
System." If the problem persists, see "Getting Help."
Time-of-day not set - please run SETUP program
Incorrect Time or Date
settings; faulty system
battery.
Check the Time and Date settings See "Using the System Setup
Program" in your User's Guide. If the problem persists, see
"Troubleshooting the System Battery" in "Troubleshooting Your System."
Timer chip counter 2 failed
Faulty system board.
See "Getting Help."
Unsupported RAID key detected.
A RAID key intended for
use with another system is
installed.
Replace the RAID key.
Unexpected interrupt in protected mode
Faulty or improperly
installed memory modules
or faulty system board.
Ensure that all memory modules are properly installed. See "General
Memory Module Installation Guidelines" in "Installing System
Components." If the problem persists, see "Troubleshooting System
Memory" in "Troubleshooting Your System." If the problem persists, see
"Getting Help."
Unsupported CPU combination
Mismatched processors are
installed.
Replace a microprocessor so that both microprocessors match. See
"Processor" in "Installing System Components."
Processor is not supported
by the system.
Check for a BIOS update using the Dell Support website at
support.dell.com. If the problem persists, install a supported processor.
See "Processor" in "Installing System Components."
Unsupported CPU stepping detected
Processor is not supported
by the system.
Check for a BIOS update using the Dell Support website at
support.dell.com. If the problem persists, install a supported processor.
See "Processor" in "Installing System Components."
Utility partition not available
<F10> key was pressed
during POST, but no utility
partition exists on the boot
hard drive.
Create a utility partition on the boot hard drive. See "Using the Dell
OpenManage Server Assistant CD" in your User's Guide.
Warning: Detected mode change from RAID to SCSI
x of the embedded RAID subsystem.
Type of controller has
changed from optional RAID
to SCSI since previous
system boot.
Back up information on the hard drives before changing the type of
controller used with the drives.
Warning: Detected mode change from SCSI to RAID
Type of controller has
Back up information on the hard drives before changing the type of